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
Master rose the nex morning with a dismal countinants--he seamed to
think that his pa's visit boded him no good. I heard him muttering at
his brexfast, and fumbling among his hundred pound notes; once he had
laid a parsle of them aside (I knew what he meant), to send 'em to his
father. “But no,” says he at last, clutching them all up together again,
and throwing them into his escritaw, “what harm can he do me? If he is
a knave, I know another who's full as sharp. Let's see if we cannot beat
him at his own weapons.” With that Mr. Deuceace drest himself in his
best clothes, and marched off to the Plas Vandom, to pay his cort to the
fair widdo and the intresting orfn.
It was abowt ten o'clock, and he propoased to the ladies, on seeing
them, a number of planns for the day's rackryation. Riding in the Body
Balong, going to the Twillaries to see King Looy Disweet (who was then
the raining sufferin of the French crownd) go to chapple, and, finely,
a dinner at 5 o'clock at the Caffy de Parry; whents they were all to
adjourn, to see a new peace at the theatre of the Pot St. Martin, called
Sussannar and the Elders.
The gals agread to everythink, exsep the two last prepositiums. “We have
an engagement, my dear Mr. Algernon,” said my lady. “Look--a very kind
letter from Lady Bobtail.” And she handed over a pafewmd noat from that
exolted lady. It ran thus:--
“FBG. ST. HONORE, Thursday, Feb. 15, 1817.
“MY DEAR LADY GRIFFIN,--It is an age since we met. Harassing public
duties occupy so much myself and Lord Bobtail, that we have scarce time
to see our private friends; among whom, I hope, my dear Lady Griffin
will allow me to rank her. Will you excuse so unceremonious an
invitation, and dine with us at the embassy to-day? We shall be en
petite comite, and shall have the pleasure of hearing, I hope, some of
your charming daughter's singing in the evening. I ought, perhaps, to
have addressed a separate, note to dear Miss Griffin; but I hope she
will pardon a poor diplomate, who has so many letters to write, you
know.
“Farewell till seven, when I POSITIVELY MUST see you both. Ever, dearest
Lady Griffin, your affectionate
“ELIZA BOBTAIL.”
Such a letter from the ambassdriss, brot by the ambasdor's Shassure, and
sealed with his seal of arms, would affect anybody in the middling ranx
of life. It droav Lady Griffin mad with delight; and, long before my
master's arrivle, she'd sent Mortimer and Fitzclarence, her two footmin,
along with a polite reply in the affummatiff.
Master read the noat with no such fealinx of joy. He felt that there
was somethink a-going on behind the seans, and, though he could not tell
how, was sure that some danger was near him. That old fox of a father of
his had begun his M'Inations pretty early!
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