The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume 7
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, volume 7
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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Harry could never have paid his share of that prodigious heavy reckoning which my landlord brought to his guests once a week : for he had but three pieces in his pockets that fatal night before the duel, when the gentlemen were at cards, and offered to play five. But whilst he was yet ill at the Oatehouse; after Lady Castlewood had visited him there, and before his trial, there came one in an orange-tawny coat and blue lace, the livery which the Esmonds always wore, and brought a sealed packet ...for Mr. Esmond, which contained twenty guineas, and a note saying that a coimsel had been appointed for him, o 2 Digitized by Google 196 THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND. and that more money would be forthcoming whenever he needed it* 'Twas a queer letter from the scholar as she was, or as she called herself: the Dowager Viscountess Castlewood, written in the strange barbarous French which she and many other fine ladies of that time — witness her Grace of Portsmouth — employed. Indeed, spelling was not an article of general commodity in the world then, and my Lord Marlborough's letters can show that he, for one, had but a little share of this part of grammar : — " MoNa Coussm," my Lady Viscountess Dowager wrote, '* je scay que vous vous etes bravement batew et grievement bl^ssay — da oost^ de feu M.
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