[The History of Samuel Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Samuel Titmarsh CHAPTER XI 10/16
I put up with the _airs and impertanencies_ of Mrs.Titmarsh; I loaded her and you with presents and bennafits.
I sacrafised myself; I gave up the best sociaty in the land, to witch I have been accustomed, in order to be a gardian and compannion to you, and prevent, if possible, that _waist and ixtravygance_ which I _prophycied_ would be your ruin. Such waist and ixtravygance never, never, never did I see.
Buttar waisted as if it had been dirt, coles flung away, candles burnt _at both ends_, tea and meat the same.
The butcher's bill in this house was enough to support six famalies. "And now you have the audassaty, being placed in prison justly for your crimes,--for cheating me of 3,000_l_., for robbing your mother of an insignificient summ, which to her, poor thing, was everything (though she will not feel her loss as I do, being all her life next door to a beggar), for incurring detts which you cannot pay, wherein you knew that your miserable income was quite unable to support your ixtravygance--you come upon me to pay your detts! No, sir, it is quite enough that your mother should go on the parish, and that your wife should sweep the streets, to which you have indeed brought them; _I_, at least, though cheated by you of a large summ, and obliged to pass my days in comparative ruin, can retire, and have some of the comforts to which my rank entitles me.
The furnitur in this house is mine; and as I presume you intend _your lady_ to sleep in the streets, I give you warning that I shall remove it all tomorrow. "Mr.Smithers will tell you that I had intended to leave you my intire fortune.
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