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The figures hanging from the lamp-post are those of Canning and Jackson, while Pitt, firmly lashed to the Tree of Liberty, is being vigorously flogged by Fox. During the earlier years of its history Brooks's was known as Almack's, its founder having been that William Almack who also established the famous assembly-rooms known by his name.
Almack advertized that it was built with hot bricks and boiling water think what a rage there must be for public places, if this notice, instead of terrifying, could draw anybody thither. They tell me the ceilings were dropping with wet but can you believe me, when I assure you the Duke of Cumberland was there? Nay, had had a levée in the morning, and went to the Opera before the assembly!
In a cordial tone, it invited Jack to breakfast at the Almack Club at twelve-thirty. The young man returned his acceptance by the same messenger, and in his best morning suit went to meet Margaret. A cab conveyed him to the corner named. There was the coach with shades drawn low, waiting. A footman stood near it. The door was opened and he saw Margaret looking out at him and shaking her hand.
"Our time is short and I have much to say," said Jack. "I am to breakfast with your father at the Almack Club at twelve-thirty." She clapped her hands and said, with a laughing face, "I knew he would ask you!" "Margaret, I want to take you to America with the approval of your father, if possible, and without it, if necessary." "I think you will get his approval," said the girl with enthusiasm.
Another pause now followed, and the spirits of Cecilia were considerably dampt; but happening accidentally to recollect the name of Almack, she presently revived, and, congratulating herself that she should now be able to speak of a place too fashionable for disdain, she asked her, in a manner somewhat more assured, if she was a subscriber to his assemblies? "Yes, ma'am."
When we look at the shelves of a circulating library, groaning beneath that generally despicable class of volumes called fashionable novels, when we take up, only to lay down in disgust, "NOTORIETY, OR FASHIONABLES UNVEILED," "PAVILION, OR A MONTH AT BRIGHTON," "MEMOIRS OF A PEERESS," "MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE," "ALMACK S REVISITED," or some such stuff, we cannot but infer, that it is not the vices or absurdities of what is ignorantly called fashionable life that creates this never-ceasing demand for trash and nonsense, but rather a morbid appetite for vapidity and small-talk, a lady's-maid's curiosity of the secrets of her betters, a servile love of imitating what is unworthy imitation, and of following that which is not worth following, simply because it is supposed that these ridiculous caricatures represent the real life of
Bully's affair ends with the Session; as soon as that is concluded, he will be in respect of matrimony absolutely evinculated. There has been an Almack since I wrote, but no events. I have been, as you justly call it, foolish, but very moderately so, and rather a winner, for which I'm not certainly less foolish.
This letter he put into his pocket with the purpose of asking Preston to deliver it if circumstances should drive him out of England or into prison. Captain Preston went with Solomon Binkus next day to the address on the card of Lieutenant Clarke. It was the house of the General, who was waiting with his son in the reception room. They walked together to the Almack Club.
Amongst those who fell in this action were Lieutenant Montresor, RN, Lieutenant Almack, RN, and Lieutenant Houston, RN, with seven of their men who were killed at their guns. For the subsequent proceedings against the Mahdi, see Our Soldiers, page 338.
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