THE MARRIAGE.



Well, the nex day came: at 12 the carridge-and-four was waiting at the ambasdor��s doar; and Miss Griffin and the faithfle Kicksey were punctial to the apintment.



I don��t wish to digscribe the marridge seminary �� how the embasy chapling jined the hands of this loving young couple �� how one of the embasy footmin was called in to witness the marridge �� how Miss wep and fainted as usial �� and how Deuceace carried her, fainting, to the brisky, and drove off… Continue

I was born in the year one, of the present or Christian hera, and am, in consquints, seven-and-thirty years old. My mamma called me Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush, in compliment to several noble families, and to a sellybrated coachmin whom she knew, who wore a yellow livry, and drove the Lord Mayor of London.



Why she gev me this genlmn��s name is a diffiklty, or rayther the name of a part of his dress; however, it��s stuck to me through life, in which I was, as it were,… Continue