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For this purpose the party of Professor Renwick was furnished with the following barometers: Two loaned by the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, of his own construction; two portable and one standard, by Neurnan; three of the siphon form, by Buntin, of Paris; one by Traughton & Simms; one by Forlin, of Paris; three of siphon form, by Roach & Warner, of New York; two by Tagliabue, of New York, originally on the plan of Durand, but which had been advantageously altered by Roach & Warner in such manner as to admit of the adjustment of the level of the mercury in the cistern.
The company, although not so very select, were very happy; they danced, drank punch, laughed, and danced again; and it was not till a late hour, long after Mr and Mrs Drummond had gone home, that I quitted the "festive scene;" Mr Turnbull, who walked away with me, declaring that it was worth a dozen of his party, although they had not such grand people as Mrs Tagliabue, or the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Babbleton.
Monsieur Tagliabue, who sat on the other side of Mrs T, found that the turkey was in request it was some time before he could help himself. "C'est superbe?" said Monsieur, thrusting a truffle into his mouth. "Apparemment, madame, n'aime pas la cuisine Anglaise?" "Ve," replied Mrs Turnbull. "Madame, what will you be hassisted to?" continued Mrs T. "Tout de bon, madame."
That evening Mr Turnbull was summoned to appear at Bow Street on the following morning for the assault. He met Monsieur Tagliabue with his lawyer, and acknowledged that he had kicked him out of his house for swindling his wife, refused all accommodation, and was prepared with his bail.
Now the affair is forgotten; but a greater scoundrel never existed; Yours, SCROPE." "Now, sir, what have you to say for yourself?" continued the magistrate in a severe tone. M. Tagliabue fell on his knees and begged for mercy from the magistrate, from Lord Scrope, and lastly, from Mr Turnbull, to whom he proffered the draft for 200 pounds.
"Ve; what are those by you, Mr Peters?" inquired the lady in continuation. "I really cannot exactly say; but they are fritters of some sort." "Let me see hoh! bidet du poms. Madame, will you eat some bidet du poms?" "Comment, madame, je ne vous comprends pas " "Ve." "Monsieur Tagliabue, expliquez donc;" said the foreign lady, red as a quarter of beef.
Madame Tagliabue and I too much fond of you and Madame Turnbull not to save your character, and so I come by her wish to beg you to settle this leetle note this leetle debt of honour;" and Monsieur Tagliabue laid the note on the table, with a very polite bow. Mr Turnbull examined the note; it was as described by Monsieur Tagliabue.
Monsieur Tagliabue stormed and blustered, talked about his acquaintance with the nobility; but the magistrate had seen too much of foreigners to place much reliance on their asseverations. "Who are you, monsieur?" "Sar, I am a gentleman." "What profession are you of, sir?" "Sar, a gentleman has no profession." "But how do you live, Monsieur Tagliabue?" "As a gentleman always does, sar."
"Monsieur and Madame de Tagliabue coming up." Enter Monsieur and Madame de Tagliabue. The former, a dapper little Frenchman, with a neat pair of legs, and stomach as round as a pea. Madame sailing in like an outward-bound East Indiaman, with studding sails below and aloft; so large in her dimensions, that her husband might be compared to the pilot-boat plying about her stern.
Still Mr T did obtain some breakfast, and had just finished when Monsieur Tagliabue was announced, and was received. "Ah! Monsieur T, I hope madame is better. Madame Tagliabue did nothing but cry all last night when she heard the very bad news about de debt, and all dat." "Very much obliged to Madame," replied Turnbull, gruffly; "and now, pray sir, what may be your pleasure?" "Ah!
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