The History of Samuel Titmarsh And the Great Hoggarty Diamond
The History of Samuel Titmarsh And the Great Hoggarty Diamond
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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Tosit, and play us, for hours, sonatas that were in fashion in LordCharleville's time; and sung with a cracked voice, till it was all thatwe could do to refrain from laughing. And it was queer to remark the change that had taken place in Mrs. Hoggarty's character now: for whereas she was in the country among thetopping persons of the village, and quite content with a tea-party at sixand a game of twopenny whist afterwards, --in London she would never dinetill seven; would have a fly from the me...ws to drive in the Park twice aweek; cut and uncut, and ripped up and twisted over and over, all her oldgowns, flounces, caps, and fallals, and kept my poor Mary from morningtill night altering them to the present mode. Mrs. Hoggarty, moreover, appeared in a new wig; and, I am sorry to say, turned out with such apair of red cheeks as Nature never gave her, and as made all the peoplein Bernard Street stare, where they are not as yet used to such fashions. Moreover, she insisted upon our establishing a servant in livery, --a boy, that is, of about sixteen, --who was dressed in one of the old liveriesthat she had brought with her from Somersetshire, decorated with newcuffs and collars, and new buttons: on the latter were represented theunited crests of the Titmarshes and Hoggartys, viz.
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