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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...as must have dismayed, crushed, and overwhelmed any but a man of iron nerve and indomitable perseverance. Yet, we may say he has succeeded: and we say this, not from any love for the subject of our sketch, but from a devilish and malicious pleasure we feel in cramming this bitter truth down the throats of the vain, shallow, ignorant, and insolent upstarts who presume to set themselves up as the standards of "good society" and the dispensers of its worthless favors. Yes--we repeat it to_you, messieurs rag-sellers and stock-gamblers, booby children of lucky tailors and coopers, hatters and sausage-makers, who swell and dash, and rattle about as if the world were made for you alone, that this gaunt and solemn-looking scribbler has more influence in the wave of his goose-quill, than your whole tribe put together. His wife, too, spends more money than you dare ask of your stingy husbands--wears richer dresses and more expensive jewelry--cuts a greater dash altogether, attracts ten times the sum of that Mat and attention, for which you are all dying, than any of you ever dared aspire to. This scribbler, too, and his saucy wife, have been abroad and visited the leading cities of Europe--and they have been received with distinguished honor at ambassadorial dinners, ministerial soirees, and even royal levees themselves. Yes, my dear Mrs. Bobus, with the immense Spanish fan, which you do not know how to even open properly, and the big bouquet, almost as red and vulgar as your own face--this mere editor and his wife have been received and courted in circles, where you and your money, and your "family influence," and all the introductions and bills of credit which your husbands could cram into their portfolios, would not receive even the...
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