Burlesques Author:William Makepeace Thackeray Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LORDS AND LIVERIES. Bv The Authoress Of " Dukes And Dejeuners," " Hearts And Diamonds," "marchionesses And Milliners," Etc., Etc, " Corbleu ! What a lovely... more » creature that was in the Fitz- battleaxe box to-night," said one of a group of young dandies who were leaning over the velvet-cushioned balconies of the " Coventry Club," smoking their full-flavored Cubas (from Hudson's) after the opera. Everybody stared at such an exclamation of enthusiasm from the lips of the young Earl of Bagnigge, who was never heard to admire anything except a coutis de dindonneau a la St. Menehould, or a supreme de cochon en torticolis a la Piffarde ; such as Champollion, the chef of the "Traveller's," only knows how to dress ; or the bouquet of a flask of Me'doc, of Carbonell's best quality ; or a goutte of Marasquin, from the cellars of Briggs and Hobson. Alured de Pentonville, eighteenth Earl of Bagnigge, Viscount Paon of Islington, Baron Pancras, Kingscross, and a Baronet, was, like too many of our young men of ton, utterly blase, although only in his twenty-fourth year. Blest, luckily, with a mother of excellent principles (who had imbued his young mind with that Morality which is so superior to all the vain pomps of the world !) it had not been always the young carl's lot to wear the coronet for which he now in sooth cared so little. His father, a captain of Britain's navy, struck down by the side of the gallant Collingwood in the Bay of Fundy, left little but his sword and spotless name to his young, lovely, and inconsolable widow, who passed the first years of her mourning in educating her child in an elegant though small cottage in one of the romantic marine villages of beautiful Devonshire.Her child! What a gush of consolation filled the widow's heart as she pressed him to it! How f...« less