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. " I wu » at a ball at Lady Clifford ' * when dancing a . quwtrtlle tfith some spooney to whose platitudes I turned a deaf ear . "—p . OT , The same young lady ' the beautiful and all-aceomplished Julia Vernon' says
again" Lord Montreville , who , I suspect , was suffering from indigestion which I < lo not at all wonder at , was so blown that he begged to stop ( dancing the galoppe ) almost immediately . —p . 98 . Her mamma , the fashionable Lady Ellinor , in reply to the
young lady ' s complaint , that she is " quite tired of hearing his lordship talk about his eternal waistcoats and the French polish on his boots , rejoins angrily , " When you are Lady Montreville , it will not signify to you whether he wears a straight waistcoat or goes barefooted , the thing is to make him
* pop the question . * " So much for the morality and feeling of what is called "high life . " And at the conclusion of an evening , which ^ eeti \ ed to bid fai t- to lead to such a happy result , ^ he bids her daughter goodnight , with the words , " I flatter myself we havejoc / ceyed his lordship . "—p . 102 . That which passes for wit with the haut ton i& nothing more than the slang of " the turf , " and other refined " sports . '' At the same time the above " lady" is shocked at a " dreadful woman , " who " lives at the antipodes , up in Baker street !"
—p . 104 . Next morning she contrives to turn out an untitled admirer of her daughter , by a false excuse of having to go to a dejeune , remarking on his departure , that " she cannot suffer her drawing-room to become a refuge for pennyless scamps . " —p . 116 .
It is the lovely Julia who describes a " great fat girP * as a regular jack of a woman , " and who makes the very clever and intelligent observation , that the said Jack , who had an " understanding" resembling a cow ' s hoof , wore shoes that probablv cost * ' five shillings and sixpence !"—p . 112 .
Where you live , and what you wear——How much money can you spare ? Who the deuce cares what you are ? The same Julia Vernon is also most ostentatiously vain of her jokes uhout " small beer , " and " brown stout , " which are aft stale as they are low ; and yet is shocked at the unfortunate creature who lives in Baker-street , because , among other sins , ihe goes to the Ancient Musical Concerts , and to Alrnack ' s in
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406 Tales tif Fmhten find Rtokty .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/14/
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