She tost it hoff to the elth of the
company, giving a smack with her lipps after she'd emtied the glas,
which very nearly caused me to phaint with hagny. But, luckaly for me,
she didn't igspose herself much farther: for when Cinqbars was pressing
her to take another glas, I cried out, 'Don't, my lord,' on which old
Grann hearing him edressed by his title, cried out, 'A Lord! o law!'
and got up and made him a cutsy, and coodnt be peswaded to speak another
word. The presents of the noble gent heavidently made her uneezy.
"The Countiss on my right and had shownt symtms of ixtream disgust at
the beayvior of my relations, and having called for her carridg, got up
to leave the room, with the most dignified hair. I, of coarse, rose to
conduct her to her weakle. Ah, what a contrast it was! There it
stood, with stars and garters hall hover the pannels; the footmin in
peach-colored tites; the hosses worth 3 hundred apiece;--and there
stood the horrid LINNEN-CART, with 'Mary Blodder, Laundress, Ealing,
Middlesex,' wrote on the bord, and waiting till my abandind old parint
should come out.
"Cinqbars insisted upon helping her in. Sir Huddlestone Fuddlestone,
the great Barnet from the North, who, great as he is, is as stewpid as
a howl, looked on, hardly trusting his goggle I's as they witnessed the
sean.
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