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I put them on, not heeding them much, for I was half tipsy with the excitement of the ci of the smo of what had taken place in Dawdley's study, and with the Maraschino and the eau-de-Cologue I had drunk. "What a fine odor of lavender-water!" said Dawdley, as we rode in the carriage. I put my head out of the window and shrieked out a laugh; but made no other reply.
At eleven I left a very pleasant bachelors' party, growling to quit them and the honest, jovial claret-bottle, in order to scrape and cut capers like a harlequin from the theatre. When I arrived at Dawdley's, I mounted to a dressing-room, and began to array myself in my cursed costume.
We were to meet at B House at twelve o'clock, and as I had no fancy to drive through the town in my cab dressed in a kilt and philibeg, I agreed to take a seat in Dawdley's carriage, and to dress at his house in May Fair.
I am godfather to one of Lady Dawdley's boys, and hers is the only house where I am allowed to smoke unmolested; but I have never been able to admire Dawdley, a sly, sournois, spiritless, lily-livered fellow, that took his name off all his clubs the year he married. I say I learned little that was useful at Slaughter House, and nothing that was ornamental.
I made her give them Daffy's Elixir the first day; and it was the greatest mercy that I had some of Frederick's baby-clothes by me; for you know I had provided Susan with sets for one only, and really " Third Lady. "Of course one couldn't; and for my part I think your ladyship is a great deal too kind to these people. A little gardener's boy dressed in Lord Dawdley's frocks indeed!
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