Sir Brook Fossbrooke
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The mess was over, and the officers of H.M.s th were grouped in little knots and parties, sipping their coffee, and discussing the arrangements for the evening. Their quarter was thiit plcitsant city of Dublin, which, hating certain exorbitant demands in the matter of Held-day and guard-mounting, stands pre-eminently first in military favour. A re you going to that great ball in Merrion h)(xuarc a...
MoreThe mess was over, and the officers of H.M.s th were grouped in little knots and parties, sipping their coffee, and discussing the arrangements for the evening. Their quarter was thiit plcitsant city of Dublin, which, hating certain exorbitant demands in the matter of Held-day and guard-mounting, stands pre-eminently first in military favour. A re you going to that great ball in Merrion h)(xuarc asked one. Not so lucky; not invited. I got a card, cried a third; but Ive just heard its not to come off. It seems that the ladys husband is a judge, lies Chief something or other; and he has been called away. Nothing of the kind, Tomkins ;unless you coll a summons to the next world being called away. The man is dangerously ill. He was seized with paralysis on the Bench yesterday, and, they say, cant recover. There now ensued an animate conversation is to whether, on death vacancies, the men went up by seniority at the bar, or whether a subaltern could at once spring up to the top of the regiment Suppose, said one, we were to ask the Coloners guest his opinion. The old cove has talked pretty nigh of everything in this world during dinner; what if we were to ask him about Barons of the Exchequer 1I fhoi Bhet wh Btlabet asked anothet.
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