The Memoirs of Mr. Charl. J. Yellowplush, and the Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche William Makepeace Thackeray

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ... 1"ll treble your salary." His vallit! praps his butler! Yes, thought I, here"s a chance--a vallit to ten thousand a-year. Nothing to do but to shave him, and read his notes, and let my wiskers grow; to dress in spick and span black, and a clean shut per day; muflings every night in the house-keeper"s room; the pick of the gals in the servents" hall; a chap to clean my boots for me, and my master"s oppra bone reglar once a-week. I knew what a vallit was as well as any genlmn in service; and this I can tell you, he"s genrally a hapier, idler, hundsomer, mor genlmnly man than his master. He has more money to spend, for genlmn will leave their silver in their weskit pockets; more suxess among the gals; as good dinners, and as good wine--that is, if he"s friends with the butler, and friends in corse they will be if they know which way their interest lies. But these are only cassels in the air, what the French call shutter d"Espang. It wasn"t roat in the book of fate that I was to be Mr. Deuceace"s vallit. Days will pass at last--even days befor a wedding, (the longist and unpleasantist day in the whole of a man"s life, I can tell you, excep, may be, the day before his hanging); and at length Aroarer dawned on the suspicious morning which was to unite in the bonds of Hyming the Honrabble Algernon Percy Deuceace, Exquire, and Miss Matilda Griflin. My master"s wardrobe wasn"t so rich as it had been; for he"d left the whole of his nieknax and trumpry of dressing cases and rob dy shams, his bewtifle museum of varnished boots, his curous colleckshn of Stulz and Staub coats when he had been ableaged to quit so sudnly our pore dear lodginx at the Hotel Mirabew; and, being incog at a fri... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Memoirs of Mr. Charl. J. Yellowplush, and the Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche (William Makepeace Thackeray)