[The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe Book of Snobs CHAPTER IV--THE COURT CIRCULAR, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SNOBS 6/6
His Majesty returned to the Necessidades to lunch, at,' &c.
&c.. Oh! that COURT CIRCULAR! once more, I exclaim. Down with the COURT CIRCULAR--that engine and propagator of Snobbishness! I promise to subscribe for a year to any daily paper that shall come out without a COURT CIRCULAR--were it the MORNING HERALD itself.
When I read that trash, I rise in my wrath; I feel myself disloyal, a regicide, a member of the Calf's Head Club.
The only COURT CIRCULAR story which ever pleased me, was that of the King of Spain, who in great part was roasted, because there was not time for the Prime Minister to command the Lord Chamberlain to desire the Grand Gold Stick to order the first page in waiting to bid the chief of the flunkeys to request the House-maid of Honour to bring up a pail of water to put his Majesty out. I am like the Pasha of three tails, to whom the Sultan sends HIS COURT CIRCULAR, the bowstring. It CHOKES me.
May its usage be abolished for ever..
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