Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 300
brought out when M. Arago has predicteddry weather, and when the barometer accord-ingly stands at much rain. You will, there-fore, not fail to borrow—you know what Imean by that—an umbrella when you go tothe first night of your friends tragedy. If thepiece be damned, as most likely it will, youwill… … P.S. Good heavens! would you believe it ? I was out at supper last night, at WhifFens—good fellow Whiffens—never knew a drop of British brandy within his doors. We hadsomething to drink of course—eight glasses, or some triflethereabouts, and I left his place to come home as sober as ajudge; that is…
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