. London characters, or, Anecdotes, fashions, and customs, of the present century. Blump ! Valet, The best fun was when thiagallant brewer mistaking, in a momentof amoroHS distraction, the door of LadyP**, for the private entrance of Mrs, 340 LONDON CHARACTERS. Conclusion. Sharks house, fell in, as from a cloud/^in the dining room, where the family in-the absence of tlieir mistress were re-Itearsing a few scenes of lligli Life BelowStairs. The Cook, who was half seas-^over, shook him heartily by the hand,and taking him for somebody else, bowed,and laughed him out, v. ith these words :^ My lord
. London characters, or, Anecdotes, fashions, and customs, of the present century. Blump ! Valet, The best fun was when thiagallant brewer mistaking, in a momentof amoroHS distraction, the door of LadyP**, for the private entrance of Mrs, 340 LONDON CHARACTERS. Conclusion. Sharks house, fell in, as from a cloud/^in the dining room, where the family in-the absence of tlieir mistress were re-Itearsing a few scenes of lligli Life BelowStairs. The Cook, who was half seas-^over, shook him heartily by the hand,and taking him for somebody else, bowed,and laughed him out, v. ith these words :^ My lord, you are mistaken. It is thenext door you want. Spruce. They served him right. All agreed on the point, but on a sud-den a most desperate pull at the bell fromabove, and a second rap ?d the door, putan end to the committee, and every oneran to answer the call, except Mrs. Blump,who, leaning back on her arm-chair, ru-minated, in her mind upon vAmt hadbeen said, and, with a gapish ^ heigl:-ho, went gently off in a sound nap* . END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. FMO^TI§FIE€E, THE TiRIAIL OF FATIMA CLAMKISo Fide Fage 321. JlonDon Cl)aracters; ANECDOTES, FASHIONS, and CUSTOMS, OF THE PRESENT SIR BARNABY SKETCHWELL, SeCNE AND rORTRAtr-lAlMtR TO TUE ARGYLE-ROOMS, AXD OTHEKILACI b OK \T RESORT. TV TWO vsith appropriate and humorous Fngraxl^g*, THE SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. -^ Quae cuiQue est fovtuna hodie, quam quisqne secat spera, Iros Rululusve ruat, nollo discriiaine habebo. Virg. JEn. X. 107- Jtnne on vienx, riche on pauvre, enfin Juif OB Chretien, >al ne mcciiapper^, sil nesl bomme de biea. Rtgnard irnnL Old and young, rich and poor, Churchman, Baptist, or Jew,If twoiiiii or wicked, Ill hold up to Show. B. S. VOL. II, LONDON: PRINTED rCiR B. CT^OSBY AND CO. ,LUDGATS-STPEET ; AND SOLD BY THE IN BOND-STREET, PIC-CADILLY, AND PALL-MALL; ALSO AT iJRlGllTON, CHELITNHAM, HATH, WORTH
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