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Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush

CHAPTER X
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And what has he got to say to his delicate female frend?
Why that-- Fust.

Mr.S.is going to publish indescent stoaries about Lady O---, his sister, which everybody's goin to by.
Nex.

That Miss Gordon is going to be cloathed with an usband; and that all their matrimonial corryspondins is to be published too.
3.

That Lord H.is going to be married; but there's some thing rong in his wife's blood.
4.

Miss Long has cut Mr.Wellesley, and is gone after two Irish lords.
Wooden you phancy, now, that the author of such a letter, instead of writin about pipple of tip-top qualaty, was describin Vinegar Yard?
Would you beleave that the lady he was a-ritin to was a chased, modist lady of honor, and mother of a famly?
O trumpery! O morris! as Homer says: this is a higeous pictur of manners, such as I weap to think of, as evry morl man must weap.
The above is one pritty pictur of mearly fashnabble life: what follows is about families even higher situated than the most fashnabble.


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