The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. YellowplushThackeray, William Makepeace
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The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Didactic fiction; England -- Fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; Humorous stories; Master and servant -- Fiction
Blewitt did; and now was the question, who should sit the other out; but
law bless you! Mr. Blewitt was no match for my master: all the time he
was fidgetty, silent, and sulky; on the contry, master was charmin.
I never herd such a flo of conversatin, or so many wittacisms as he
uttered. At last, completely beat, Mr. Blewitt took his leaf; that
instant master followed him; and passin his arm through that of Mr.
Dick, led him into our chambers, and began talkin to him in the most
affabl and affeckshnat manner.
But Dick was too angry to listen; at last, when master was telling him
some long story about the Duke of Doncaster, Blewitt burst out--
“A plague on the Duke of Doncaster! Come, come, Mr. Deuceace, don't
you be running your rigs upon me; I ain't the man to be bamboozl'd by
long-winded stories about dukes and duchesses. You think I don't know
you; every man knows you and your line of country. Yes, you're after
young Dawkins there, and think to pluck him; but you shan't,--no,
by ---- you shan't.” (The reader must recklect that the oaths which
interspussed Mr. B.'s convysation I have left out.) Well, after he'd
fired a wolley of 'em, Mr. Deuceace spoke as cool as possbill.
“Hark ye, Blewitt. I know you to be one of the most infernal thieves and
scoundrels unhung. If you attempt to hector with me, I will cane you; if
you want more, I'll shoot you; if you meddle between me and Dawkins, I
will do both. I know your whole life, you miserable swindler and coward.
I know you have already won two hundred pounds of this lad, and want
all. I will have half, or you never shall have a penny.” It's quite true
that master knew things; but how was the wonder.
I couldn't see Mr. B.'s face during this dialogue, bein on the wrong
side of the door; but there was a considdrable paws after thuse
complymints had passed between the two genlmn,--one walkin quickly up
and down the room--tother, angry and stupid, sittin down, and stampin
with his foot.
“Now listen to this, Mr. Blewitt,” continues master at last. “If you're
quiet, you shall have half this fellow's money: but venture to win a
shilling from him in my absence, or without my consent, and you do it at
your peril.”
“Well, well, Mr. Deuceace,” cries Dick, “it's very hard, and I must say,
not fair: the game was of my startin, and you've no right to interfere
with my friend.”
“Mr. Blewitt, you are a fool! You professed yesterday not to know this
man, and I was obliged to find him out for myself. I should like to know
by what law of honor I am bound to give him up to you?”
It was charmin to hear this pair of raskles talkin about HONOR. I
declare I could have found it in my heart to warn young Dawkins of the
precious way in which these chaps were going to serve him. But if THEY
didn't know what honor was, I did; and never, never did I tell tails
about my masters when in their sarvice--OUT, in cors, the hobligation is
no longer binding.
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