The Book of Snobs

shness may be made to bloom. A beautiful and fashionable lady —(pardon, gracious madam, that your story should be made public; but it is so moral that it oug

Snobby Snobky, whose presentation at Cour

oured livery of the Snobkys, she used occasionally in these promenades to meet with young Lord Claude Lollipop, the Marquis of Sillabub’s younger son. In the very height of the season, from some unexplained c

’t hear of it,’ ans

the silver-fork worshippers, how all the tattle-mongers, how all the grocers’ ladies, the tailors’ ladies, the attorneys’ and merchants’ ladies, and the people living at Clapham and Brunswick Square,— who have no mor

ky’s dress, and that of her moth

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trimmed en tablier, with bouquets of Brussels sprouts: the body and sleeves handsomely trimmed wi

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dress of sky-blue velveteen, trimmed with bouffants and noeuds of bell-pulls. Stomacher a muffin. Head-dress a bird’s nest, with a bird of paradis

land, this is the sort of writing which is put in the newspapers for you! How can you hel

ould not expand to the natural size were you to give her a washing-tub for a shoe and for all her life she has little feet, and is a cripple. Oh, my dear Miss Wiggins, thank your stars that those beautiful feet of yours — though I declare when you walk

that ours is the only country in the world now where the COURT CIRCULAR remains in full flourish — where you read, ‘This day his Royal Highness Prince Pattypan was taken an airing in his go-cart.’ ‘The Princess Pimminy was taken a drive, attended by her ladies of honour, and accompanied by her doll,’ &c. We laugh at the solemnity wi

ort takes the diversion of shooting among the rabbit-warrens of Cintra, or the pheasant-preserve of Mafra, he has a keeper to load his guns, as a matter of course, and then they are handed to the nobleman, his equ

tinues, Snobs there must be. The three persons engage

position of debasement before another human being (the Prince), with whom he is allowed to communicate through another party. A fre

is degrading to the nobleman in waiting to execute that service. He acts as a Snob towards the keeper, wh

accepting the services of the keeper directly; but indirectly he insults the service performed, and t

diversion of shooting the woods off Cintra, attended by Colonel the honourable Whi

CIRCULAR! once

ise in my wrath; I feel myself disloyal, a regicide, a member of the Calf’s Head Club. The only COURT CIRCULAR story which ever pleased me, was that of the King of Spain, who in great part was roasted, because there was not time for th

ils, to whom the Sultan sends H

y its usage be a