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Six weeks at Long's by a late resident [E.S. Barrett].
Six weeks at Long's by a late resident - E.S. Barrett Author:Eaton Stannard Barrett 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: CHAPTER II. We mentioned, in the former chapter, that the conversation was interrupted by the entrance of a stranger. This was a fat, ruddy, grey-headed gentl... more »eman, whose wrinkled boots, and superfluity of breeches, were evidently provincial; while his coat, open and thrown back, depended for its support more upon the breadth of his shoulders than the handicraft of his tailor. He dropped his weight into an opposite box, whistling just loud enough to be heard by himself, and with his thumbs hooked in the shoulder-holes Vol. i. c of his waistcoat; but it was the sudden and Stentorian voice with which he called " Hollo, waiter!" that arrested the attention of the company. " Coming, Sir!" cried the waiter, as he was leaving the room. " There goes Lunnun, by crackins !" exclaimed the stranger, bursting into a tremendous fit of laughter, and half turning towards the Marquis's box. " Well, if I don't put that down for our club !—Coming, says the fellow, and he going!—Well, I have now been two days in Lunnun, and such a place—-Well!—Coming, cries the fellow, and he going!" Another hearty laugh closed his oration ; and all the opposite box, except Lord Leander, joined in it. Buttheir mirth was at the jester, not the jest. He now took a short Dutch pipe from his pocket, and after having filled it with tobacco out of a tin box, began to smoke without the smallest ceremony. " Mon Dieu!" exclaimed Petitoe, with a shrug. " We must have him turned out," said the Marquis. " By no means," said Lord Lean- der. " If you were in the Morea, you must turn out the whole nation, at this rate. A man who has travelled, learns to be a citizen of the world. To him it is indifferent whether the quaker wears his hat, the Mahomedan his turban, or the In short, humannature, or ...« less