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 staggered back and looked bewildered; and then he gave a kind
of a scream, and then he made a run at the Frenchman, and then me and
Mortimer flung ourselves upon him, whilst Fitzclarence embraced the
shevalliay.
“A demain!” says he, clinching his little fist, and walking away, not
very sorry to git off.
When he was fairly down stares, we let go of master: who swallowed
a goblit of water, and then pawsing a little and pullout his pus, he
presented to Messeers Mortimer and Fitzclarence a luydor each. “I will
give you five more to-morrow,” says he, “if you will promise to keep
this secrit.”
And then he walked in to the ladies. “If you knew,” says he, going up
to Lady Griffin, and speaking very slow (in cors we were all at the
keyhole), “the pain I have endured in the last minute, in consequence of
the rudeness and insolence of which I have been guilty to your ladyship,
you would think my own remorse was punishment sufficient, and would
grant me pardon.”
My lady bowed, and said she didn't wish for explanations. Mr. Deuceace
was her daughter's guest, and not hers; but she certainly would never
demean herself by sitting again at table with him. And so saying out she
boltid again.
“Oh! Algernon! Algernon!” says Miss, in teers, “what is this dreadful
mystery--these fearful shocking quarrels? Tell me, has anything
happened? Where, where is the chevalier?”
Master smiled and said, “Be under no alarm, my sweetest Matilda. De
l'Orge did not understand a word of the dispute; he was too much in
love for that. He is but gone away for half an hour, I believe; and will
return to coffee.”
I knew what master's game was, for if miss had got a hinkling of the
quarrel betwigst him and the Frenchman, we should have had her screeming
at the “Hotel Mirabeu,” and the juice and all to pay. He only stopt
for a few minnits and cumfitted her, and then drove off to his friend,
Captain Bullseye, of the Rifles; with whom, I spose, he talked over this
unplesnt bisniss. We fownd, at our hotel, a note from De l'Orge, saying
where his secknd was to be seen.
Two mornings after there was a parrowgraf in Gallynanny's Messinger,
which I hear beg leaf to transcribe:--
“FEARFUL DUEL.--Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, a meeting took place,
in the Bois de Boulogne, between the Hon. A. P. D--ce-ce, a younger son
of the Earl of Cr-bs, and the Chevalier de l'O---. The chevalier was
attended by Major de M---, of the Royal Guard, and the Hon. Mr. D---
by Captain B-lls-ye, of the British Rifle Corps. As far as we have been
able to learn the particulars of this deplorable affair, the dispute
originated in the house of a lovely lady (one of the most brilliant
ornaments of our embassy), and the duel took place on the morning
ensuing.
“The chevalier (the challenged party, and the most accomplished amateur
swordsman in Paris) waived his right of choosing the weapons, and the
combat took place with pistols.
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