 | James Parton - Biography - 1883 - 860 pages
...following toast : — " Ladies and Gentlemen : — This is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man ; I do it with sincerity, wishing you all possible happiness." The mirth of the company instantly ceased, and the wife or the British minister, Mr. Irving records,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1886 - 500 pages
...days. He smiled and said : " Ladies and gentlemen, this is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man ; I do it with sincerity, wishing you all possible happiness." Perhaps he was thinking at the moment of his own happiness in going back to private life ; but it suddenly... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1887 - 436 pages
...filled his glass. " Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "this is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man. I do it with sincerity, wishing you all possible happiness." The next day an immense crowd gathered about Congress Hall. Mr. Jefferson took the oath as Vice-President,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...gentlemen, this is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man. I do it with sincerity, and wishing you all possible happiness." There was an end of all pleasantry. He who gives this relation accidentally directed his eye to the lady of the British minister (Mrs.... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1889 - 286 pages
...those days. He smiled and said: " Ladies and gentlemen, this is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man ; I do it with sincerity, wishing you all possible happiness." Perhaps he was thinking at the moment of his own happiness in going back to private life ; but it suddenly... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 420 pages
...filled his glass and said : "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man. I do it with sincerity, wishing you all possible happiness." The company did not take the same cheerful view as their host of this leave-taking. There was a pause... | |
 | Lydia L. Gordon - Presidents - 1889 - 470 pages
...quite unexpectedly, saying: " Ladies and gentlemen, this is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man. I do it with sincerity, wishing you all possible happiness." Bishop White, who was a guest and described the scene, said : " This put an end to all pleasantry,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1877 - 782 pages
...filled his glass and said : •' Ladies and gentlemen, this is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man ; I do it with sincerity, wishing you all possible happiness." At these words many of the company wept. Tears streamed down the face of the wife of the British Minister.... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Biography & Autobiography - 1896 - 378 pages
...gentlemen, this is the last time I shall drink your health, as a public man. I do it with sincerity, and wishing you all possible happiness.' There was an end of all pleasantry." A glance at Mrs. Washington's receptions has been given, but the levees of the President remain to... | |
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is the last time I shall drink your health as a public man. I do it with sincerity, wishing you all possible happiness. 
