Excerpt from Miscellanies, Prose and Verse, Vol. 2: Memoirs of Mr. C. J. Yellowplush; Diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq.; Sketches and Travels in London; Novels by Eminent Hands; Character Sketches<br><br>He had married a widow Buckmaster, who had been a Miss Slamcoe. She was a Bristol gal and her father being a bankrup in the tallow-chandlering way, left, in course, a pretty little sum of money. A thousand pound was settled on her; and she was as high and mighty as if it had been a millium.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.