peterborrow

Updated: July 23, 2025

"Iss, Missis!" says Pompey, a little grinning negro Lord Peterborrow gave her, with a bird of Paradise in his turbant, and a collar with his mistress's name on it. "Iss, Missis!" says Beatrix, imitating the child. "And if husband not come, Pompey must go fetch one."

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne