[Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookBurlesques CHAPTER XXIV 68/194
Young and old led them to a woodn bank painted to look like a bower of roses, and when they were sett down danst ballys before them.
O 'twas a noble site to see the Marcus too, smilin ellygint with fethers in his edd and all his stars on, and the young Marchynisses with their ploomes, and trains, and little coronicks! They lived in tremenjus splendor at home in their pyturnle alls, and had no end of pallises, willers, and town and country resadences; but their fayvorit resadence was called the Castle of the Island of Fogo. Add I the penn of the hawther of a Codlingsby himself, I coodnt dixcribe the gawjusness of their aboad.
They add twenty-four footmen in livery, besides a boy in codroys for the knives & shoes.
They had nine meels aday--Shampayne and pineapples were served to each of the young ladies in bed before they got up.
Was it Prawns, Sherry-cobblers, lobster-salids, or maids of honor, they had but to ring the bell and call for what they chose.
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