"Bonhommie" Quotes from Famous Books
... two fair friends enabled me to see thus much; and very little "usage" sufficed to render me speedily intimate with both; the easy bonhommie of the mamma, who had a very methodistical appreciation of what the "connexion" call "creature comforts," amused me much, and opened one ready path to her good graces by the opportunity afforded of getting up a luncheon of veal ... — The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872) |