' The answer
is obvious. You may furnish your cellar or your larder in this way.
Begad, Snooks! I lick my lips at the very idea.
"Then, as to tailors, milliners, bootmakers, &c., how easy to get a
word for them! Amranson, the tailor, waited upon Lord Paddington with
an assortment of his unrivalled waistcoats, or clad in that simple
but aristocratic style of which Schneider ALONE has the secret. Parvy
Newcome really looked like a gentleman, and though corpulent and
crooked, Schneider had managed to give him, &c. Don't you see what a
stroke of business you might do in this way.
"The shoemaker.--Lady Fanny flew, rather than danced, across the
ball-room; only a Sylphide, or Taglioni, or a lady chausseed by
Chevillett of Bond Street could move in that fairy way; and
"The hairdresser.--'Count Barbarossa is seventy years of age,' said the
Earl. 'I remember him at the Congress of Vienna, and he has not a single
gray hair.' Wiggins laughed. 'My good Lord Baldock,' said the old wag,
'I saw Barbarossa's hair coming out of Ducroissant's shop, and under his
valet's arm--ho! ho! ho!'--and the two bon-vivans chuckled as the Count
passed by, talking with, &c. &c.
"The gunmaker.--'The antagonists faced each other; and undismayed before
his gigantic enemy, Kilconnel raised his pistol.
Pages:
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133