[Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookBurlesques CHAPTER XXIV 85/194
You may furnish your cellar or your larder in this way. Begad, Snooks! I lick my lips at the very idea. "Then, as to tailors, milliners, bootmakers, &c., how easy to get a word for them! Amranson, the tailor, waited upon Lord Paddington with an assortment of his unrivalled waistcoats, or clad in that simple but aristocratic style of which Schneider ALONE has the secret.
Parvy Newcome really looked like a gentleman, and though corpulent and crooked, Schneider had managed to give him, &c.
Don't you see what a stroke of business you might do in this way. "The shoemaker .-- Lady Fanny flew, rather than danced, across the ball-room; only a Sylphide, or Taglioni, or a lady chausseed by Chevillett of Bond Street could move in that fairy way; and "The hairdresser.--'Count Barbarossa is seventy years of age,' said the Earl.
'I remember him at the Congress of Vienna, and he has not a single gray hair.' Wiggins laughed.
'My good Lord Baldock,' said the old wag, 'I saw Barbarossa's hair coming out of Ducroissant's shop, and under his valet's arm--ho! ho! ho!'-- and the two bon-vivans chuckled as the Count passed by, talking with, &c.
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