Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... II. THE BLOOMER CHAPTER I. Propria qua; maribus tribuuntur mascula dicas. Free Trans.--The things that are proper to males you may cai; masculine. John Courtenay was the son of Richard Courtenay Richard was the younger son of a good Devonshire family: his elder brother inherited four thousand a-year--he fifteen hundred pounds down from the same relative, his father--vive l'Angleterre! His fifteen hundred pounds wouldn't do in a genteel country like England; so he went to America and commerce. He died richer than the owner of Courts nay Court. John, his son, was richer still by the same honourable means. He was also a staunch republican. The unparalleled rise and grandeur of the United States might wel. recommend their institutions to any candid mind; anc John Courtenay spent his leisure moments in taking the gloss off John Bull's hide. He was not so spitefu. against him as some of those gentry who owe then Cleverness to themselves, but their existence to Biu. and forget it: his line was rather cool contempt. The old country was worn out and decayed; it was progressing like a crab instead of going a-head, etc., etc., etc., etc. For all this, one fine day something seemed to crack inside John Courtenay's bosom, when he saw an announcement from the modest pen of Robins that Courtenay Court was in the market. He did not think such an advertisement would have interested him any more than consols ninety-six and a naif--but it did. This gentleman was at the moment working a loan at 5 per cent, with Kentucky; and he had promised himself to be in it to the tune of 50,000Z.: but all this day he took more snuff than was good for him, and the next day after breakfast and a reverie he suddenly burst out 'Pshaw! the worst investment in the worst...
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