D'horsay Or the Follies of the Day Author:John Mills General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Original Publisher: William Strange Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may... more » 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: CHAPTER VI. It was a hot, glowing afternoon in the thirsty month of July ; " the season " had reached its apex, and the votaries of fashion were thronging the ring in that hot-bed of vanity, Hyde park, to flit their painted wings in the hour prescribed. Up and down, round and round the crowd went, pedestrian and equestrian, observing and observed. " But who cares for the mass?" ex- claims an impatient reader. Then let us particularize and work the woof that at length is to complete the thread of our eventful history. " Here he comes," shouts a footman out of place to a brother flunky in a like out-of-a-situation, as between the closely-wedged ranks the Marquis D'Horsay drove his splendid cabriolet. The gazed of all gazers, and admired of all admirers -- except, by the way, of a few anxious-minded tradesmen, who seemed to take but little pleasure in seeing their property thus shown off to the best of advantage -- the Marquis held his course. A smile played upon his lips, and it might have continued there, for that day at least, had not a sallow-complexioned person, mounted on a seedy-looking horse, an animal that might have safely been warranted quiet to ride or drive in double or single harness, spurred to the wheel of the Marquis's cab, and, doffing his hat with as much politeness as his nature would permit, presented his card. We have no doubt that Hamlet -- that is, the original Hamlet- was exceedingly unnerved when delivering his...« less