[Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush CHAPTER I 3/18
I've heard him say, that he cleared no less than fifty pounds every year by letting his front room at hanging time. His winders looked right opsit Newgit, and many and many dozen chaps has he seen hanging there.
Laws was laws in the year ten, and they screwed chaps' nex for nex to nothink.
But my bisniss was at his country-house, where I made my first ontray into fashnabl life.
I was knife, errint, and stable-boy then, and an't ashamed to own it; for my merrits have raised me to what I am--two livries, forty pound a year, malt-licker, washin, silk-stocking, and wax candles--not countin wails, which is somethink pretty considerable at OUR house, I can tell you. I didn't stay long here, for a suckmstance happened which got me a very different situation.
A handsome young genlmn, who kep a tilbry and a ridin horse at livry, wanted a tiger.
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