Men's Wives

Name: Men's Wives
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Pages: about 238
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
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IV. In which the heroine has a number more lovers, and cuts a very dashing figure in the world.
V. In which Mr. Walker falls into difficulties, and Mrs. Walker makes many foolish attempts to rescue him.
VI. In which Mr. Walker still remains in difficulties, but shows great resignation under his misfortunes.
VII. In which Morgiana advances towards fame and honour, and in which several great literary characters make their appearance.
CHAPTER I. WHICH IS ENTIRELY INTRODUCTORY--CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF MISS CRUMP, HER SUITORS, AND HER FAMILY CIRCLE.
In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London--perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the “Bootjack Hotel.” Mr. Crump, the landlord, had, in the outset of life, performed the duties of Boots in some inn even more frequented than his own, and, far from being ashamed of his origin, as many persons are in the days of their prosperity, had thus solemnly recorded it over the hospitable gate of his hotel.
Crump married Miss Budge, so well known to the admirers of the festive dance on the other side of the water as Miss Delancy; and they had one daughter, named Morgiana, after that celebrated part in the “Forty Thieves” which Miss Budge performed with unbounded applause both at the “Surrey” and “The Wells.” Mrs. Crump sat in a little bar, profusely ornamented with pictures of the dancers of all ages, from Hillisberg, Rose, Parisot, who plied the light fantastic toe in 1805, down to the Sylphides of our day. There was in the collection a charming portrait of herself, done by De Wilde; she was in the dress of Morgiana, and in the act of pouring, to very slow music, a quantity of boiling oil into one of the forty jars.

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