. London characters, or, Anecdotes, fashions, and customs, of the present century. t, respects each established reli-gion of all tjie civilized nations. When the severe snows and bad wea-ther will not allow of his family all go-M 5 250 LONDON CHARACTERS. Evening Prayers. ing to church, he reads prayers tothem^ on a Sunday evening, and a shortsermon. It v/ould require the pencil of a Bun-bury to do justice tothegroupe. It hasbeen a very cold day, and the generousand good natured Sir John has orderedthe men-servants a double portion of thebest and strongest home-brewed ale ;therefore, with what
. London characters, or, Anecdotes, fashions, and customs, of the present century. t, respects each established reli-gion of all tjie civilized nations. When the severe snows and bad wea-ther will not allow of his family all go-M 5 250 LONDON CHARACTERS. Evening Prayers. ing to church, he reads prayers tothem^ on a Sunday evening, and a shortsermon. It v/ould require the pencil of a Bun-bury to do justice tothegroupe. It hasbeen a very cold day, and the generousand good natured Sir John has orderedthe men-servants a double portion of thebest and strongest home-brewed ale ;therefore, with what they purloined them-selves into the bargain, they enter thegreat parlour well impregnated withraalt and hops, and literally iop-heavj/.The female servants, they get weary longbefore the sermon begins ; and then thepicture of the sleeping congregation isdisplayed; the volatile Miss Burton,obliged, malgre elle, to sit still, yieldsto the power of Morpheus ; and as her ,legs do not reach half-way from the chairto the ground, she often disgraces hergelfhj falimg plump on the ITie Sleepv (onqreijation. ,u^e ZoO. SIR JOHN AND LADY 90MERVILLE. 251 A sleeping Congregation. The coachman and head-gardener, Avhohave both lived with their master fortyyears^ nod, in opposite directions ; thepretty waiting-maid of Lady Somervillemakes most graceful bows to her master,with her eyes sealed up in sleep ; andthe subaltern the back-ground,are sometimes heard to snore, in deeptones, aloud. But it has happened, too, that whenSir John has dismissed them with hisblessing, that a second draught of ale,between the coachman and gardener, de-stroy that peace which the masters reli-gious precepts have been endeavouringto inculcate ; and these two old servantsgo on, fighting, as far as the parlour-doors, till the good Sir John is obliged touse his efforts to quell the tumult; whileeach declares, respectively, he will notlive any longer in his place, unless hiscomrade is discharg
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