Suicide Most Foul
Suicide Most Foul
ISBN: 9780802754301
出版年: 1980-1
页数: 204
定价: 51.00
内容简介
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I consider it a mere commonplace of genteel manners that a
man who takes a whim to blow his brains out with a pistol
firing a one-ounce ball should do it in his own lodgings. To
perform the act in the residence of an amiable and titled lady
shows no consideration for the servants??? and little respect for
a fine Aubusson carpet. But such was the opening of the
vexatious affair that took me??? my groom Jagger and my
horrible little clerk??? Master Maggsy??? to the great Battle of
Waterloo in that fateful June of 1815. There we witnessed
the final cooking of that rascal Bonaparte s tripes for him???
and had sundry curious dealings with several of the Duke of
Wellington s troops; the infamous army??? as he called it. I
don t know what they ll do to the French??? he said??? but??? by
God??? they frighten me.
So for the start of it you are to see me with one or two
military gentlemen??? and several others of Philosophy and
learning??? etc.??? at the town house of Lady Dorothea Dash-
wood--Lady Dorothea Hookham as was--in Hanover
Square. It is the occasion of her weekly salon??? my lady being
somewhat of the blue-stocking persuasion??? and we are
gathered in the Adams drawing-room??? discoursing over our
dishes of tea; a niminy-piminy beverage I can well do