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 then pinted majestickly--to what do you think?--to my PLUSH TITES!
those sellabrated inigspressables which have rendered me famous in
Yourope.
Taking the hint, the jondarmes and the servnts rord out laffing; and
so did Charles Yellowplush, Esquire, I can tell you. Old Grippard the
bailiff looked as if he would faint in his chare.
I heard a kab galloping like mad out of the hotel-gate, and knew then
that my master was safe.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE END OF MR. DEUCEACE'S HISTORY. LIMBO.
My tail is droring rabidly to a close; my suvvice with Mr. Deuceace
didn't continyou very long after the last chapter, in which I described
my admiral strattyjam, and my singlar self-devocean. There's very few
servnts, I can tell you, who'd have thought of such a contrivance, and
very few moar would have eggsycuted it when thought of.
But, after all, beyond the trifling advantich to myself in selling
master's roab de sham, which you, gentle reader, may remember I woar,
and in dixcovering a fipun note in one of the pockets,--beyond this,
I say, there was to poar master very little advantich in what had been
done. It's true he had escaped. Very good. But Frans is not like Great
Brittin; a man in a livry coat, with 1 arm, is pretty easily known, and
caught, too, as I can tell you.
Such was the case with master. He coodn leave Paris, moarover, if he
would. What was to become, in that case, of his bride--his unchbacked
hairis? He knew that young lady's temprimong (as the Parishers say) too
well to let her long out of his site. She had nine thousand a yer.
She'd been in love a duzn times befor, and mite be agin. The Honrabble
Algernon Deuceace was a little too wide awake to trust much to the
constnsy of so very inflammable a young creacher. Heavn bless us, it was
a marycle she wasn't earlier married! I do bleave (from suttn seans
that past betwigst us) that she'd have married me, if she hadn't been
sejuiced by the supearor rank and indianuity of the genlmn in whose
survace I was.
Well, to use a commin igspreshn, the beaks were after him. How was he to
manitch? He coodn get away from his debts, and he wooden quit the fare
objict of his affeckshns. He was ableejd, then, as the French say, to
lie perdew,--going out at night, like a howl out of a hivy-bush, and
returning in the daytime to his roast. For its a maxum in France (and I
wood it were followed in Ingland), that after dark no man is lible for
his detts; and in any of the royal gardens--the Twillaries, the Pally
Roil, or the Lucksimbug, for example--a man may wander from sunrise to
evening, and hear nothing of the ojus dunns: they an't admitted into
these places of public enjyment and rondyvoo any more than dogs; the
centuries at the garden-gates having orders to shuit all such.
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