On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty-six; and he was awaiting his successor, who was due at the house between eleven and half-past.
A rap at this moment sounded on the door of the cosy apartment where Phileas Fogg was seated, and James Forster, the dismissed servant, appeared.
He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn.
If Fraulein Forster--" this was the Dutch spinster--"if Fraulein Forster knew she would leave at once.
He insisted as usual on pouring out the Frau Professor a glass of his Moselle, and he offered a glass to Fraulein Forster. The room was very hot, for the stove had been alight all day and the windows were seldom opened.
Darcy mean," said she to Charlotte, "by listening to my conversation with Colonel Forster?"
Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?"
'Life by
Forster', and I think there is a deeper and sweeter sense of Goldsmith in it.
An arborescent fern was found by
Forster in New Zealand in 46 degs., where orchideous plants are parasitical on the trees.
[Footnote: The life of Dickens by his friend John
Forster is another of the most famous English biographies.] The most popular of all English novelists, Charles Dickens, was born in 1812, the son of an unpractical and improvident government navy clerk whom, with questionable taste, he later caricatured in 'David Copperfield' as Mr.
Craig
Forster also attacked a healthcare assistant as he waited to be seen in a bed in the casualty department ofJames Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough.
Forster's" ideas culminate in A Passage to India (1924), where