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The Book of Snobs

CHAPTER XXXV--SNOBS AND MARRIAGE
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And being a Director of the newly-established Antibilious Life Assurance Company, he has had Gray appointed Standing Counsel, with a pretty annual fee; and only yesterday, in an appeal from Bombay (Buckmuckjee Bobbachee v.
Ramchowder-Bahawder) in the Privy Council, Lord Brougham complimented Mr.Gray, who was in the case, on his curious and exact knowledge of the Sanscrit language.
Whether he knows Sanscrit or not, I can't say; but Goldmore got him the business; and so I cannot help having a lurking regard for that pompous old Bigwig..


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