. Thackerayana;. on House ; he was just set down to dinner. . .As soon as the cloth was taken away I produced my manuscript,and the bookseller put on his spectacles ; but to my no smallmortification, after glancing an eye over the title page, he lookedsteadfastly upon me for near a minute in a kind of amazement Icould not account for, and then broke out in the following manner :— My dear sir, you are come to the very worst place in the worldfor the sale of such a performance as this—to think of expectingthe Court cf Aldermens permission to preach upon the subject oflean and fallozu abstinence
. Thackerayana;. on House ; he was just set down to dinner. . .As soon as the cloth was taken away I produced my manuscript,and the bookseller put on his spectacles ; but to my no smallmortification, after glancing an eye over the title page, he lookedsteadfastly upon me for near a minute in a kind of amazement Icould not account for, and then broke out in the following manner :— My dear sir, you are come to the very worst place in the worldfor the sale of such a performance as this—to think of expectingthe Court cf Aldermens permission to preach upon the subject oflean and fallozu abstinence between the Royal Exchange andTemple Bar ! THE WORLD: 343 No. 130. The * World.—June 26, 1755. Extracts from a letter written by c Priscilla Cross-stitch, for her-self and sisters, on the subject of the indelicacy of nankin breeches,as indulged in by Patrick, their footman :— 1 We give him no livery, but allow him a handsome sum yearlyfor clothes ; and, to say the truth, till within the last week he has. dressed with great propriety and decency, when all at once, to ourgreat confusion and distress, he has the assurance to appear atthe sideboard in a pair of filthy nankin breeches, and those madeto fit so extremely tight, that a less curious observer might havemistaken them for no breeches at all. The shame and confusionso visible in all our faces one would think would suggest to himthe odiousness of his dress ; but the fellow appears to have thrownoff every appearance of decency, for at tea-table before company,as well as at meals, we are forced to endure him in this abominablenankin, our modesty conflicting with nature, to efface the idea itconveys. The ladies cannot well discharge a good servant for this indis-cretion, their delicacy will not allow them to mention the dreadfulword, norventure on allusions to the objectionable part of theapparel ; nor will they venture to entrust the task to their maids,as it might draw them into puzzling explanations. The publicationo
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