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The Book of Snobs

CHAPTER XXVIII--ON SOME COUNTRY SNOBS
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The toilet of Venus, Fantaski.

Flemish Bores drinking, Van Ginnums.

Jupiter and Europia, de Horn.

The Grandjunction Canal, Venis, by Candleetty; and Italian Bandix, by Slavata Rosa.'-- And so this worthy woman went on, from one room into another, from the blue room to the green, and the green to the grand saloon, and the grand saloon to the tapestry closet, cackling her list of pictures and wonders: and furtively turning up a corner of brown holland to show the colour of the old, faded, seedy, mouldy, dismal hangings.
At last we came to her Ladyship's bed-room.

In the centre of this dreary apartment there is a bed about the size of one of those whizgig temples in which the Genius appears in a pantomime.


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