id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt owenson-florence-1818 owenson owenson-florence-1818 1818 .txt text/plain 163523 5974 67 A general burst of half-smothered laughter followed this speech, but Mr. Crawley, wholly occupied with his own description and importance, continued : That painting in the front is done by Miss Craw- ley, and is an aregorical device of Lady Dunore, in the character of the horn of plenty, throwing down pace and prosperity on her people. Lady Dunore, whose hysterical affection had re- cently taken a tone of risibility wholly beyond her own control, now absolutely screamed with laugh- ter ; while the civil Mr. Pottinger, full of the re- spectability of the Crawley family, and of the excel- lence of Mr. Crawley's dinners, observed in a low voice : I assure your ladyship, for all his lapsus lingua , Mr. Crawley, of Merrion square, is a most worthy gentleman, and a peculiarly loyal man. cache/owenson-florence-1818.txt txt/owenson-florence-1818.txt