[Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush CHAPTER IV 16/60
U.'s (but he didn't pay these in most cases) 4963 0 0 21 tailors' bills, in all 1306 11 9 3 hossdealers' do 402 0 0 2 coachbuilder 506 0 0 Bills contracted at Cambridtch 2193 6 8 Sundries 987 10 0 -- ---------- L 14069 8 5 I give this as a curosity--pipple doan't know how in many cases fashnabble life is carried on; and to know even what a real gnlmn OWES is somethink instructif and agreeable. But to my tail.
The very day after my master had made the inquiries concerning Mr.Dawkins, witch I mentioned already, he met Mr.Blewitt on the stairs; and byoutiffle it was to see how this gnlmn, who had before been almost cut by my master, was now received by him.
One of the sweetest smiles I ever saw was now vizzable on Mr.Deuceace's countenance.
He held out his hand, covered with a white kid glove, and said, in the most frenly tone of vice posbill, "What! Mr.Blewitt? It is an age since we met.
What a shame that such near naybors should see each other so seldom!" Mr.Blewitt, who was standing at his door, in a pe-green dressing-gown, smoakin a segar, and singing a hunting coarus, looked surprised, flattered, and then suspicious. "Why, yes," says he, "it is, Mr.Deuceace, a long time." "Not, I think, since we dined at Sir George Hookey's.
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