"and always stir in the same direction then cream the milk and sugar and whisk well the white of eggs though she didn't like the eating part when there were any people that made her shy" (U13.227)
"and often she wondered why you couldn't eat something poetical like violets or roses and they would have a beautifully appointed drawingroom with pictures and engravings and the photograph of grandpapa Giltrap's lovely dog Garryowen that almost talked, it was so human, and chintz covers for the chairs and that silver toastrack in Clery's summer jumble sales like they have in rich houses." (U13.229)
"He would be tall with broad shoulders (she had always admired tall men for a husband) with glistening white teeth under his carefully trimmed sweeping moustache" (U13.235)
"and they would go on the continent for their honeymoon (three wonderful weeks!)" (U13.237)
"and then, when they settled down in a nice snug and cosy little homely house, every morning they would both have brekky, simple but perfectly served, for their own two selves" (U13.238)
(Image from 'The Lamplighter' courtesy of Ross Chambers)
(Image from 'The Lamplighter' courtesy of Ross Chambers)
"and before he went out to business he would give his dear little wifey a good hearty hug and gaze for a moment deep down into her eyes." (U13.241)
"Edy Boardman asked Tommy Caffrey was he done and he said yes, so then she buttoned up his little knickerbockers for him and told him to run off and play with Jacky and to be good now and not to fight. " (U13.243)
"But Tommy said he wanted the ball and Edy told him no that baby was playing with the ball and if he took it there'd be wigs on the green but Tommy said it was his ball and he wanted his ball and he pranced on the ground, if you please." (U13.245)
"The temper of him!
O, he was a man already was little Tommy Caffrey since he was out of pinnies. Edy told him no, no and to be off now with him and she told Cissy Caffrey not to give in to him.
- You're not my sister, naughty Tommy said. It's my ball." (U13.249)
O, he was a man already was little Tommy Caffrey since he was out of pinnies. Edy told him no, no and to be off now with him and she told Cissy Caffrey not to give in to him.
- You're not my sister, naughty Tommy said. It's my ball." (U13.249)
" But Cissy Caffrey told baby Boardman to look up, look up high at her finger and she snatched the ball quickly and threw it along the sand and Tommy after it in full career, having won the day." (U13.253)
"- Anything for a quiet life, laughed Ciss.
And she tickled tiny tot's two cheeks to make him forget and played here's the lord mayor, here's his two horses, here's his gingerbread carriage and here he walks in," (U13.256)
And she tickled tiny tot's two cheeks to make him forget and played here's the lord mayor, here's his two horses, here's his gingerbread carriage and here he walks in," (U13.256)
"chinchopper, chinchopper, chinchopper chin. But Edy got as cross as two sticks about him getting his own way like that from everyone always petting him." (U13.259)
"- I'd like to give him something, she said, so I would, where I won't say.
- On the beeoteetom, laughed Cissy merrily.
Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she'd be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss.
- Let him! she said with a pert toss of her head and a piquant tilt of her nose. Give it to him too on the same place as quick as I'd look at him." (U13.262)
- On the beeoteetom, laughed Cissy merrily.
Gerty MacDowell bent down her head and crimsoned at the idea of Cissy saying an unladylike thing like that out loud she'd be ashamed of her life to say, flushing a deep rosy red, and Edy Boardman said she was sure the gentleman opposite heard what she said. But not a pin cared Ciss.
- Let him! she said with a pert toss of her head and a piquant tilt of her nose. Give it to him too on the same place as quick as I'd look at him." (U13.262)
"Madcap Ciss with her golliwog curls. You had to laugh at her sometimes. For instance when she asked you would you have some more Chinese tea and jaspberry ram and when she drew the jugs too and the men's faces on her nails with red ink make you split your sides or when she wanted to go where you know she said she wanted to run and pay a visit to the Miss White. That was just like Cissycums." (U13.270)
"O, and will you ever forget the evening she dressed up in her father's suit and hat" (U13.275)
Period actress Vesta Tilley (1864 - 1952), dressed as a man. She was the most famous and best paid music hall male impersonator of her day. Her roles had a slightly mocking edge that made her very popular with working class men. She was wildly popular among women as well, who viewed her as a symbol of independence. One of her songs was 'The Seaside Girls.'
Period actress Vesta Tilley (1864 - 1952), dressed as a man. She was the most famous and best paid music hall male impersonator of her day. Her roles had a slightly mocking edge that made her very popular with working class men. She was wildly popular among women as well, who viewed her as a symbol of independence. One of her songs was 'The Seaside Girls.'
"and the burned cork moustache and walked down Tritonville road, smoking a cigarette. There was none to come up to her for fun. But she was sincerity itself, one of the bravest and truest hearts heaven ever made, not one of your twofaced things, too sweet to be wholesome." (U13.276)