[Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush CHAPTER IV 15/60
You may call this robry--nonsince--it's only our rights--a suvvant's purquizzits is as sacred as the laws of Hengland. Well, the long and short of it is this.
Richard Blewitt, esquire, was sityouated as follows: He'd an incum of three hundred a year from his father.
Out of this he had to pay one hundred and ninety for money borrowed by him at collidge, seventy for chambers, seventy more for his hoss, aty for his suvvant on bord wagis, and about three hundred and fifty for a sepparat establishment in the Regency Park; besides this, his pockit-money, say a hunderd, his eatin, drinkin, and wine-marchant's bill, about two hunderd moar.
So that you see he laid by a pretty handsome sum at the end of the year. My master was diffrent; and being a more fashnable man than Mr.B., in course he owed a deal more mony.
There was fust: Account contray, at Crockford's L 3711 0 0 Bills of xchange and I.O.
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