Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon].

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    able to call again, this flashy merchant, like his neighbours, might commit an act of bankruptcy and have absconded, I therefore took it with me, though at the hazard of it’s giving my scanty skirted coat a very awkward and suspicious projection, suffering it to occupy the whole of one pocket, my white cambric engrossing the other. Neither the beauty of my hostess, the luxury of the table, nor the gaiety of a masqued ball, could divert my thoughts from my new purchase, which I felt as if on my head, and longed to examine, as well as to escape from the more prying eyes of some of the company, which seemed often to glance very significantly at the unaccountable excrescence on my left side, whilst two or three noses, with a sense more exquisitely delicate, when- ever I approached, were turned up, as if there was something about me that taint- ed the ambient air, and which, to speak the truth, my own blunter sense ackuow-
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