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Lady Chesterfield's Letters to Her Daughter (pt. 4)
Lady Chesterfield's Letters to Her Daughter - pt. 4 Author:George Augustus Sala Volume: pt. 4 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Houlston and Wright Subjects: History / General 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... more » trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: LETTER THE SECOND. HAS PRINCIPALLY REFERENCE TO THE PERSONS A YOUNG LADY OUGHT NOT TO KNOW. I Congratulate you, my treasure, on your comfortable installation in Pagoda Square. When Sir Charles and I kept house in London, it was in Piccadilly Place we lived. His duties compelled him to be near the person of his sovereign ; indeed, when the Court was at Brighton, he had private apartments in one of the minarets of the Pavilion constructed expressly for him by Mr. Nash. Piccadilly Place was built of red brick; the drawing-room had bow-windows and a verandah ; and at either side of the door there rose from the railings a lamp-iron, and an iron extinguisher for quenching the flambeaux which the running footmen of those who came before us used to carry round their coaches and six. We had a black footman, poor Quimbo, who nursed you as a child, and died of frost-bite in the nose in the mild winter of '28. Our quarterly bills for wax candles were prodigious, and Mr. Carbonnell sent us the very best of old port wine. I went to Court in a yellow chariot with very high springs, and your good papa's arms -- he had only proper pride, my dear -- painted on three sides. Wicked Mr. Theodore Crook- back, the great Church and King wit and poet, said, when he came to dine with us one day, that if he could afford to keep a carriage, he would have his arms painted on each side the splashboard. At all events, we had the silver crest of theChesterfields on the sides of the hammercloth, which was a present to your papa from Doctor Pangloss, th...« less