The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 280: what you’re looking at

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LAST SCENE WITH THE GERMANS 251 “His Royal Highness,’”’ continued Gumbinnen, “ not choose for to tell his vare goot brudder, de Prince Albert, of all dese mishaps, and derefore his Royal Highness sall be for honouring his vare goot friend de Duke of Marchmont by asking for de loan of a tousand guineas and de address of his Grace’s tailor. Himmel, my lord, dat is de whole fact. Kadger sall be for to prove it — ”’ ‘“ And Count Frumpenhausen to swear to it,’”’ added our hero, ironically. ‘“Begar! You doubt us, my lord?” exclaimed the Chevalier Gumbinnen. ‘‘ Come, den, and see his Royal Highness, and you sall be for learning dat it all de fact. We was for saying to his Royal Highness dat we had seen de yong duke de oder day, dat he receive us so kind, and dat he ask us to come anoder day and take de lonch wit him. Soden his Royal Highness he sall say, ‘ Vare goot. Go to mine yong friends; tell him what for I sall be wanting his assist- ance, and how he sall be for sending me de tousand guineas and de name of his tailor,’ hein? ”’ ‘“‘ Listen, gentlemen,”’ said our young hero. ‘“ The tale you have just told me about the loss of the trunks is one which carries deception on the face of it. Your grand duke is as contemptible as yourselves, particularly in respect to the mode by which he seeks to replenish his purse. Unfor- tunately for the British people, he is really a German grand duke, and we all know it to our cost, for he never visits Eng- land without having his expenses paid from our national treasury.” Here the Chevalier Gumbinnen thought it becoming, as the grand duke’s representative, to assume the indignant, and with a loudly ejaculated ‘‘ Begar!’”’ he advanced so close up to Christian, in order to give effect to the words he was about to utter, that the strong odour which he carried about him was most sickeningly overpowering. The young duke hastened to the window and threw it up. Just at that very moment a Punch and Judy show was passing in the square, and it halted immediately under the window. Then there arose a sound of the big drum and the Pandzan pipes (vulgarly called a mouth-organ). The young duke tossed out half a crown, at the same time waving his hand for the itinerants to depart, when it struck him that he struck him that he recognized the lean, gaunt form, as well GOMIIGDOG SS) (©)