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Now diamonds is come, and zleep and peace is fled. Dere is four tousand tents, and to each tent a dawg; dat dawg bark at four tousand other dawgs all night, and dey bark at him and at each oder. Den de masters of de dawgs dey get angry, and fire four tousand pistole at de four tousand dawgs, and make my bed shake wid the trembling of mine vrow. My vamily is with diamonds infected.
After which he remained silent above a minute, and then began in the following hesitating manner: "Yesterday! she would have left me her esteate yesterday! would she? Why yesterday, of all the days in the year? I suppose if she dies to-morrow, she will leave it to somebody else, and perhaps out of the vamily."
The truth of the matter is this: I could not abide to zee the pictures of my vamily with a parcel of loose hair hanging about their eyes, like zo many colts; and zo I employed a painter vellow from Lundon to clap decent periwigs upon their skulls, at the rate of vive shillings a head, and offered him three shillings a piece to furnish each with a handsome pair of shoes and stockings: but the rascal, thinking I must have 'em done at any price after their heads were covered, haggled with me for four shillings a picture; and zo, rather than be imposed upon, I turned him off, and shall let 'em stand as they are, till zome more reasonable brother of the brush comes round the country."
Pere Issacar, a bric-a-brac merchant on the Quay Voltairean an old-fashioned Jew with a filthy overcoat, the very sight of which made one long to tear it off approached Maria one day, just as she was about to sketch a rose in the Marquise's powdered wig, and after raising a hat greasy enough to make the soup for a whole regiment, said to her: "Matemoiselle, vould you make me von dozen vamily bordraits?"
Pere Issacar, a bric-a-brac merchant on the Quay Voltairean an old- fashioned Jew with a filthy overcoat, the very sight of which made one long to tear it off approached Maria one day, just as she was about to sketch a rose in the Marquise's powdered wig, and after raising a hat greasy enough to make the soup for a whole regiment, said to her: "Matemoiselle, vould you make me von dozen vamily bordraits?"
Pere Issacar, a bric-a-brac merchant on the Quay Voltairean an old-fashioned Jew with a filthy overcoat, the very sight of which made one long to tear it off approached Maria one day, just as she was about to sketch a rose in the Marquise's powdered wig, and after raising a hat greasy enough to make the soup for a whole regiment, said to her: "Matemoiselle, vould you make me von dozen vamily bordraits?"
"You'd better have minded what the parson says," cries the eldest, "and not a harkened after men voke." "Indeed, child, and so she had," says the mother, sobbing: "she hath brought a disgrace upon us all. She's the vurst of the vamily that ever was a whore."
I vound 'em together at my cousin my Lady Bellaston's. He hath turned the head o' her, that's certain but d n me if he shall ha her I'll ha no lords nor courtiers in my vamily."
I have not quarrelled with sister this many years but upon your account; and now you would throw the whole blame upon me, as thof I should be the occasion of her leaving the esteate out o' the vamily. I could have expected no better indeed; this is like the return you make to all the rest of my fondness."
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