Tales of Fashionable Life
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Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: R. Hunter Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General History / Europe / Ireland Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Women's Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrat...
MoreVolume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: R. Hunter Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General History / Europe / Ireland Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Women's Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 142 CHAPTER X. Towards the evening of the second day' journey, the driver of lord Colambre's hackney chaise stopped, and jumping off the wooden bar, on which he had been seated, exclaimed, " We're come to the bad step now. The bad road's beginning upon us, please your honour." " Bad road ! that is very uncommon in this country. -- I nevlksaw such fine roads, as you have in Ireland." ... " That's true; and God bless your honour, that's sensible of that same, for it's not what all the foreign quality I drive have the manners to notice. -- God bless your honour ! I heard you're a Welshman, but, whether or no, I am sure you are a jantleman, any way, Welsh or other." Notwithstanding the shabby great coat, the shrewd postillion perceived, by our hero's language, that he was a gentleman. After much dragging at the horses' heads, and pushing and lifting, the carriage was got over what the postillion said was the worst part of the bad step ; but as the road " was not yet to say good," he continued walking beside the carriage. " It's only bad just hereabouts, and that by accident," said he, " on account of there being no jantleman resident in it, nor near; but only a bit of an under agent, a great little rogue, who gets his own turn out of the roads, and every thing else in life. I, Larry Brady, that am telling your honour, have a good right to know; for myself, and my fathe...
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