[The History of Samuel Titmarsh by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of Samuel Titmarsh CHAPTER XIII 3/31
Will you be a brave woman, and look for the place, and mayhap replace the little one that God has taken from you ?' "She began to tremble and blush; and then I told her what you, Mr.Sam, had told me the other day about your money matters; and no sooner did she hear it than she sprung to her bonnet, and said, 'Come, come:' and in five minutes she had me by the arm, and we walked together to Grosvenor Square.
The air did her no harm, Mr.Sam, and during the whole of the walk she never cried but once, and then it was at seeing a nursery-maid in the Square. "A great fellow in livery opens the door, and says, 'You're the forty- fifth as come about this 'ere place; but, fust, let me ask you a preliminary question.
Are you a Hirishwoman ?' "'No, sir,' says Mrs.T. "'That suffishnt, mem,' says the gentleman in plush; 'I see you're not by your axnt.
Step this way, ladies, if you please.
You'll find some more candidix for the place upstairs; but I sent away forty-four happlicants, because they _was_ Hirish.' "We were taken upstairs over very soft carpets, and brought into a room, and told by an old lady who was there to speak very softly, for my Lady was only two rooms off.
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