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His specialitè was the accurate information he could Impart on all the petty details of the domestic economy of his friends, the contents of their wardrobes, their pantries, the number of pots of preserve in their store-closets, and of the table-napkins in their linen-presses, the dates of their births and marriages, the amounts of their tradesmen’s bills, and whether paid weekly or quarterly. He had been on the press, and was connected with the Morning Chronicle. He used to drive Matthews crazy by ferreting out his whereabouts when he left London, and popping the information in some paper.—Recollections, i. 131, 132.

Paul’s Pigeons. So the boys of St. Paul’s School, London, used to be called.

Paul’s Walkers, loungers who frequented the middle of St. Paul’s in the time of the Commonwealth, as they did Bond Street during the regency. (See Ben Jonson’s Every Man out of His Humour (1599), and Harrison Ainsworth’s Old St. Paul’s, 1843.)

Pauletti (The lady Erminia), ward of Master George Heriot the king’s goldsmith. Sir W. Scott: The Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).

Paulina, the nobl e-spirited wife of Antigonus a Sicilian lord, and the kind friend of queen Hermionê. When Hermionê gave birth in prison to a daughter, Paulina undertook to present it to king Leontês, hoping that his heart would be softened at the sight of his infant daughter; but he commanded the child to be cast out on a desert s hore, and left there to perish. The child was drifted to the “coast” of Bohemia, and brought up by a s hepherd, who called it Perdita. Florizel, the son of king Polixenês, fell in love with her, and fled with her to Sicily, to escape the vengeance of the angry king. The fugitives being introduced to Leontês, it was soon discovered that Perdita was the king’s daughter, and Polixenês consented to the union he had before forbidden. Paulina now invited Leontês and the rest to inspect a famous statue of Hermionê, and the statue turned out to be the living queen herself.—Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale (1604).

Paulina is clever, generous, strong-minded, and warm-hearted, fearless is asserting the truth, firm in her sense of right, enthusiastic in all her affections, quick in thought, resolute in word, and energetic in action, but heedless, hot-tempered, impatient, loud, bold, voluble, and turbulent of tongue.—Mrs. Jameson.

Pauline, “The Beauty of Lyons,” daughter of Mon. Deschappelles, a Lyonese merchant; “as pretty as Venus and as proud as Juno.” (For the rest, see Melnotte, p. 695.)—Lord Lytton: The Lady of Lyons (1838).

Pauline (Mademoiselle) or Monna Paula, the attendant of lady Erminia Pauletti the goldsmith’s ward.—Sir W. Scott: The Fortunes of Nigel (time, James I.).

Paulinus of York christened 10,000 men, besides women and their children, in one single day in the Swale. (Altogether some 50,000 souls, i.e. 104 every minute, 6250 every hour, supposing he worked eight hours without stopping.)

When the Saxons first received the Christian faith,
Paulinus of old York, the zealous bishop then,
In Swale’s abundant stream christened ten thousand
men,
With women and their babes, a number more beside,
Upon one happy day.

Drayton: Polyolbion, xxviii. (1622).

Paupiah, the Hindû steward of the British governor of Madras.—Sir W. Scott: The Surgeon’s Daughter (time, George II.).

Pausanias (The British), William Camden (1551–1623). Sometimes called “the British Strabo.”