...gentleman with that pretty carriage, I declare.' " ' Small use to him a pretty carriage now,' said vMrs Parkinson ; ' the only carriage that he needs is a...shall be able to get it. What a nice thing to be sure !' " The etiquette of a Calcutta ball-room may be agreeable to many English ladies. It is furnished...

...exclaimed Mrs Poggleton, with more eagerness than she had manifested throughout the conversation, '1 have been dying a long time for that carriage, and...her hands, and pretended to be immeasurably shocked, murtering to herself, but quite loud enough for everybody to hear, that life was a span, and death...