[Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush CHAPTER IV 7/60
We'll go abroad and love each other, has formly." And now you ask me, Who he was? I shudder to relate .-- Mr.Haltamont SWEP THE CROSSING FROM THE BANK TO CORNHILL!! Of cors, I left his servis.
I met him, few years after, at Badden-Badden, where he and Mrs.A.were much respectid, and pass for pipple of propaty. THE AMOURS OF MR.
DEUCEACE. DIMOND CUT DIMOND. The name of my nex master was, if posbil, still more ellygant and youfonious than that of my fust.
I now found myself boddy servant to the Honrabble Halgernon Percy Deuceace, youngest and fifth son of the Earl of Crabs. Halgernon was a barrystir--that is, he lived in Pump Cort, Temple: a wulgar naybrood, witch praps my readers don't no.
Suffiz to say, it's on the confines of the citty, and the choasen aboad of the lawyers of this metrappolish. When I say that Mr.Deuceace was a barrystir, I don't mean that he went sesshums or surcoats (as they call 'em), but simply that he kep chambers, lived in Pump Cort, and looked out for a commitionarship, or a revisinship, or any other place that the Wig guvvyment could give him.
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