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The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond Etc. Etc
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond Etc Etc Author:William Makepeace Thackeray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " But no," says I ; "we'll ask Bob Swinney and half-a-dozen more of our gents ; and we'll have a merry night of it on Saturday." And a merry night we had too ; a... more »nd as we had no wine in the cupboard, we had plenty of ale, and gin-punch afterwards. And Gus sat at the foot of the table, and I at the head ; and we sang songs, both comic and sentimental, and drank toasts ; and I made a speech that there is no possibility of mentioning here, because, entre nous, I had quite forgotten in the morning everything that had taken place after a certain period on the night before. CHAPTER IV. How ihe liappy Diamond-IFearcr Dines at Pentonvillc. I DID not go to the office till half-an-hour after opening time on Monday, If the truth must be told, I was not sorry to let Hos- kins have the start of me, and tell the chaps what had taken place,—for we all have our little vanities, and I liked to be thought well of by my companions. When I came in, I saw my business had been done, by the way in which the chaps looked at me; especially Abednego, who offered me a pinch out of his gold snuff-box the very first thing. Roundhand shook me, too, warmly by the hand, when he came round to look over my day-book, said I wrote a capital hand (and indeed I believe I do, without any sort of flattery), and invited me for dinner next Sunday, in Myddelton Square. "You won't have," said he, "quite such a grand turn-out as with your friends at tlie West End"—he said this with a particular accent—'' but Amelia and I are always happy to see a friend in our plain way,—pale sherry, old port, and cut and come again. Hey?" I said I would come, and bring Hoskins too. He answered that I was very polite, and that he should be very happy to see Hoskins ; and we went accordingly at the appointed day and hour ; but t...« less