But little lively good naterd Lady Kitty Quickset, who was going
away with the Countiss, held her little & out of the carridge to me and
said, 'Mr. De la Pluche, you are a much better man than I took you to
be. Though her Ladyship IS horrified, & though your Grandmother DID take
gin for breakfast, don't give her up. No one ever came to harm yet for
honoring their father & mother.'
"And this was a sort of consolation to me, and I observed that all the
good fellers thought none the wuss of me. Cinqbars said I was a trump
for sticking up for the old washerwoman; Lord George Gills said she
should have his linning; and so they cut their joax, and I let them. But
it was a great releaf to my mind when the cart drove hoff.
"There was one pint which my Grandmother observed, and which, I muss
say, I thought lickwise: 'Ho, Jeames,' says she, 'hall those fine ladies
in sattns and velvets is very well, but there's not one of em can hold a
candle to Mary Hann.'"
"Railway Spec is going on phamusly. You should see how polite they har
at my bankers now! Sir Paul Pump Aldgate, & Company. They bow me out of
the back parlor as if I was a Nybobb. Every body says I'm worth half a
millium. The number of lines they're putting me upon is inkumseavable.
I've put Fitzwarren, my man, upon several.
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