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The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
by William Makepeace Thackeray
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- about 102
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- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
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From the opening
I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I
should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I
leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:—
Seeing, I say, this simple visiting ticket, the world will avoid any of
those awkward mistakes as to my person, which have been so frequent of
late. There has been no end to the blunders regarding this humble title
of mine, and the confusion thereby created. When I published my volume
of poems, for instance, the Morning Post newspaper remarked “that the
Lyrics of the Heart, by Miss Gahagan, may be ranked among the sweetest
flowrets of the present spring season.” The Quarterly Review,
commenting upon my “Observations on the Pons Asinorum” (4to, London,
1836), called me “Doctor Gahagan,” and so on. It was time to put an end
to these mistakes, and I have taken the above simple remedy.
I was urged to it by a very exalted personage. Dining in August last at
the palace of the T-l-r-es at Paris, the lovely young Duch-ss of Orl-ns
(who, though she does not speak English, understands it as well as I
do), said to me in the softest Teutonic, “Lieber Herr Major, haben sie
den Ahmednuggarischen-jager-battalion gelassen?” “Warum denn?” said I,
quite astonished at her R—l H—ss’s question. The P-cess then spoke of
some trifle from my pen, which was simply signed Goliah Gahagan.
“Comment donc?” said H.M. Lo-is Ph-l-ppe, looking gravely at Count
Molé; “le cher Major a quitté l’armée! Nicolas donc sera maître de
l’Inde!” H. M- and the Pr. M-n-ster pursued their conversation in a low
tone, and left me, as may be imagined, in a dreadful state of
confusion.
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