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"I make no doubt," said he, "that I shall make trente et le va, here at this table, this very evening." Smiles and good-natured sneerings met this calm speech. "Trente et le va it hath not come out in the history of London play for the past four seasons!" cried Wilson.
We opened the volumes, expecting to find our witty clubbist in every page; George in his full expansion, "in his armour as he lived;" George, every inch a wit, glittering before us in his full court suit, in his letters, his anecdotes, his whims, his odd views of mankind, his caustic sneerings at the glittering world round him; an epistolary HB., turning every thing into the pleasant food of his pen and pungency.
One or two private interviews with little aristocrats who jeered at him for his ancestry convinced them that while he might not have had illustrious ancestors, it was not unlikely that he would in time develop illustrious descendants, and the jeerings and sneerings soon ceased.
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