ladyshipping

Updated: June 22, 2025

Fourteen porters came out, and each took a package with the greatest civility; calling Jemmy her ladyship, and me your honor; ay, and your honoring and my ladyshipping even my man and the maid in the cab. I somehow felt all over quite melancholy at going away.

William Makepeace Thackeray - Burlesques