Mr. Punch in Society: Being the Humours of Social Life — John Shaqi
Mr. Punch in Society: Being the Humours of Social Life
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Mr. Punch in Society: Being the Humours of Social Life
England -- Social life and customs -- Humor; English wit and humor; English wit and humor, Pictorial
“Didn’t I send ’im to Heton an’ Hoxford? Didn’t I send ’im into the
Harmy, along o’ some o’ the biggest nobs in all Hengland, with an
allowance fit for a young Hearl? And what’s the hupshot of it all? Why,
he gives dinners to Dooks and Royal ’Ighnesses, an’ don’t even harsk
’is pore old father to meet ’em. ’Ighnesses, indeed! I could buy up the
’ole blessed lot! And, _what’s more, I wouldn’t mind tellin’ ’em so
to their faces, for two pins!--Ah! just as soon as look at em--and ’e
knows it!_”]
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ROBERT’S ROMANCE
I have been so bothered for coppys of my Romanse, as I read at
the Cook’s Swarry some time back, that I have detummined to
publish it, and here it is. In coarse, all rites is reserved.
ROBERT.
THE MYSTERY OF MAY FARE
(BY ONE BEHIND THE SEENS)
CHAPTER I.--_Despare!_
It was Midnite! The bewtifool Countess of Belgravier sat at the hopen
winder of her Boodwar gazing on the full moon witch was jest a rising
up above the hopposite chimbleys. Why was that evenly face, that
princes had loved and Poets sillybrated, bathed in tears? How offen had
she, wile setting at that hopen winder, washed it with Oder Colone, to
remove the stanes of them tell tail tears? But all in wane, they wood
keep running down that bewtifool face as if enamelled with its buty;
and quite heedless of how they was a spiling of her new ivory cullered
sattin dress that Maddam Elise’s yung ladies had been a workin on up to
five a clock that werry arternoon.
She had bin to the great ball of the Season, to be washupped as usual
by the world of Fashun, but wot had driven her home at the hunerthly
hour of harf-parst Eleven? Ah, that cruel blo, that deadly pang, that
despairin shok, must be kep for the nex chapter.
CHAPTER II.--_The Helopemeant!_
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