[Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookBurlesques CHAPTER XXIV 59/194
A mug of foaming hafanaf (so a certain sort of beer is called) was placed by the side of most of the convives.
I was disappointed of seeing Sir Peel: he was engaged to a combat of cocks which occurs at Windsor." Not one word of English was spoke during this dinner, excep when the gentlemen said "Garsong de l'afanaf," but Jool was very much pleased to meet the eleet of the foringers in town, and ask their opinion about the reel state of thinx.
Was it likely that the bishops were to be turned out of the Chambre des Communes? Was it true that Lor Palmerston had boxed with Lor Broghamm in the House of Lords, until they were sepparayted by the Lor Maire? Who was the Lor Maire? Wasn't he Premier Minister? and wasn't the Archeveque de Cantorbery a Quaker? He got answers to these questions from the various gents round about during the dinner--which, he remarked, was very much like a French dinner, only dirtier.
And he wrote off all the infamation he got to his newspaper. "The Lord Maire, Lord Lansdowne, is Premier Ministre.
His Grace has his dwelling in the City.
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