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
I'M BLEST IF HE DIDN'T BRING MASTER A PLATE OF CABBITCH! Would you
bleave it, that now, in the nineteenth sentry, when they say
there's schoolmasters abroad, these stewpid French jackasses are so
extonishingly ignorant as to call a CABBIDGE a SHOO! Never, never let
it be said, after this, that these benighted, souperstitious, misrabble
SAVIDGES, are equill, in any respex, to the great Brittish people. The
moor I travvle, the moor I see of the world, and other natiums, I am
proud of my own, and despise and deplore the retchid ignorance of the
rest of Yourup.
. . . . . .
My remarks on Parris you shall have by an early opportunity. Me and
Deuceace played some curious pranx there, I can tell you.
MR. DEUCEACE AT PARIS.
CHAPTER I.
THE TWO BUNDLES OF HAY.
Lieutenant-General Sir George Griffin, K.C.B., was about seventy-five
years old when he left this life, and the East Ingine army, of which he
was a distinguished ornyment. Sir George's first appearance in Injar was
in the character of a cabbingboy to a vessel; from which he rose to be
clerk to the owners at Calcutta, from which he became all of a sudden a
capting in the Company's service; and so rose and rose, until he rose to
be a leftenant-general, when he stopped rising altogether--hopping the
twig of this life, as drummers, generals, dustmen, and emperors must do.
Sir George did not leave any mal hair to perpetuate the name of Griffin.
A widow of about twenty-seven, and a daughter avaritching twenty-three,
was left behind to deploar his loss, and share his proppaty. On old Sir
George's deth, his interesting widdo and orfan, who had both been with
him in Injer, returned home--tried London for a few months, did not
like it, and resolved on a trip to Paris; where very small London people
become very great ones, if they've money, as these Griffinses had.
The intelligent reader need not be told that Miss Griffin was not the
daughter of Lady Griffin; for though marritches are made tolrabbly early
in Injer, people are not quite so precoashoos as all that: the fact is,
Lady G. was Sir George's second wife. I need scarcely add, that Miss
Matilda Griffin wos the offspring of his fust marritch.
Miss Leonora Kicksey, a ansum, lively Islington gal, taken out to
Calcutta, and, amongst his other goods, very comfortably disposed of
by her uncle, Capting Kicksey, was one-and-twenty when she married Sir
George at seventy-one; and the 13 Miss Kickseys, nine of whom kep a
school at Islington (the other 4 being married variously in the city),
were not a little envius of my lady's luck, and not a little proud of
their relationship to her. One of 'em, Miss Jemima Kicksey, the oldest,
and by no means the least ugly of the sett, was staying with her
ladyship, and gev me all the partecklars. Of the rest of the famly,
being of a lo sort, I in course no nothink; MY acquaintance, thank my
stars, don't lie among them, or the likes of them.
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