The Paris sketch book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh and eastern sketches, a journey from Cornwall to Cairo, the Irish sketch book and character sketches (1840)
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 · New York : A. L. Burt · leaf 668
192 THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK. tions climbing over the dark hills that lead to Lord Sligo’s seat of Delphi. Presentl}^, with a curtsy, came a }"oung woman who sold worsted socks at a shilling a pair, and whose portrait is … and the other part of her per- son towards the artist, and exclaimed in that attitude, “I inusv have a shilling more.” Then 1 told her to go to the deuce. Then she made a proposition, involving the stockings and sixpence, which was similarl}" rejected ; and, finall}", the above splendid design was…
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
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