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Works: The book of snobs, and Sketches and travels in London
Works The book of snobs and Sketches and travels in London 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: CHAPTER XXI. SOME CONTINENTAL SNOBS. OW that September has come, and all our Parliamentary duties are over, perhaps no class of Snobs are in such high feat... more »her as the Continental Snobs. I watch these daily as they commence their migrations from the beach at Folkestone. I see shoals of them depart (not perhaps without an innate longing too to quit the Island along with those happy Snobs). Farewell, dear friends, I say : you little know that the individual who regards you from the beach is your friend and historiographer and brother. I went to-day to see our excellent friend Snooks, on board the " Queen of the French ;" many scores of Snobs were there, on the deck of that fine ship, marching forth in their pride and bravery. They will be at Ostend in four hours ; they will inundate the Continent next week ; they will carry into far lands the famous image of the British Snob. I shall not see them—but am with them in spirit: and indeed there is hardly a country in the known and civilized world in which these eyes have not beheld them. I have seen Snobs, in pink coats and hunting-boots, scouring over the Campagna of Rome ; and have heard their oaths and their well- known slang in the galleries of the Vatican, and under the shadowy arches of the Colosseum. I have met a Snob on a dromedary in the desert, and picnicking under the Pyramid of Cheops. I like to think how many gallant British Snobs there are, at this minute of writing, pushing their heads out of every window in the courtyard of " Meu- rice's" in the Rue de Rivoli ; or roaring out, " Garsong, du pang," "Garsong, du vang;" or swaggering down the Toledo at Naples ; oreven how many will be on the look-out for Snooks on Ostend Pier,— for Snooks, and the rest of the Snobs on board the " Queen of the French." Look at t...« less