[Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookBurlesques CHAPTER XXIV 113/194
But little lively good naterd Lady Kitty Quickset, who was going away with the Countiss, held her little & out of the carridge to me and said, 'Mr.De la Pluche, you are a much better man than I took you to be.
Though her Ladyship IS horrified, & though your Grandmother DID take gin for breakfast, don't give her up.
No one ever came to harm yet for honoring their father & mother.' "And this was a sort of consolation to me, and I observed that all the good fellers thought none the wuss of me.
Cinqbars said I was a trump for sticking up for the old washerwoman; Lord George Gills said she should have his linning; and so they cut their joax, and I let them.
But it was a great releaf to my mind when the cart drove hoff. "There was one pint which my Grandmother observed, and which, I muss say, I thought lickwise: 'Ho, Jeames,' says she, 'hall those fine ladies in sattns and velvets is very well, but there's not one of em can hold a candle to Mary Hann.'" "Railway Spec is going on phamusly.
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