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A Little Dinner at Timmins's
A Little Dinner at Timmins's
A Little Dinner at Timmins's
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'A Little Dinner at Timmins's' is a novella written by William Makepeace Thackeray. The story begins by introducing us to a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins, who live in a genteel neighborhood in Lilliput Street. Mrs. Timmins comes from a good family, with her mother always reminding Mr. Timmins of their distant relationship to the Earl of Bungay. Mr. Timmins is a lawyer with chambers in Fig-tree Court, Temple and practices on the Northern Circuit. He recently received a favorable outcome in a legal case and celebrated by purchasing several items, including a couple of mirrors, a coral for the baby, two dresses for Mrs. Timmins, and a rosewood desk.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGood Press
Release dateDec 10, 2019
ISBN4064066223526
A Little Dinner at Timmins's
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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was a nineteenth century English novelist who was most famous for his classic novel, Vanity Fair, a satirical portrait of English society. With an early career as a satirist and parodist, Thackeray shared a fondness for roguish characters that is evident in his early works such as Vanity Fair, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and Catherine, and was ranked second only to Charles Dickens during the height of his career. In his later work, Thackeray transitioned from the satirical tone for which he was known to a more traditional Victorian narrative, the most notable of which is The History of Henry Esmond. Thackeray died in 1863.

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    A Little Dinner at Timmins's - William Makepeace Thackeray

    William Makepeace Thackeray

    A Little Dinner at Timmins's

    Published by Good Press, 2022

    goodpress@okpublishing.info

    EAN 4064066223526

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    Mr. and Mrs. Fitzroy Timmins live in Lilliput Street, that neat little street which runs at right angles with the Park and Brobdingnag Gardens. It is a very genteel neighborhood, and I need not say they are of a good family.

    Especially Mrs. Timmins, as her mamma is always telling Mr. T. They are Suffolk people, and distantly related to the Right honorable the Earl of Bungay.

    Besides his house in Lilliput Street, Mr. Timmins has chambers in Fig-tree Court, Temple, and goes the Northern Circuit.

    The other day, when there was a slight difference about the payment of fees between the great Parliamentary Counsel and the Solicitors, Stoke and Pogers, of Great George Street, sent the papers of the Lough Foyle and Lough Corrib Junction Railway to Mr. Fitzroy Timmins, who was so elated that he instantly purchased a couple of looking-glasses for his drawing-rooms (the front room is 16 by 12, and the back, a tight but elegant apartment, 10 ft. 6 by 8 ft. 4), a coral for the baby, two new dresses for Mrs. Timmins, and a little rosewood desk, at the Pantechnicon, for which Rosa had long been sighing, with crumpled legs, emerald-green and gold morocco top, and drawers all over.

    Mrs. Timmins is a very pretty poetess (her Lines to a Faded Tulip and her Plaint of Plinlimmon appeared in one of last year's Keepsakes); and Fitzroy, as he impressed a kiss on the snowy forehead of his bride, pointed out to her, in one of the innumerable pockets of the desk, an elegant ruby-tipped pen, and six charming little gilt blank books, marked My Books, which Mrs. Fitzroy might fill, he said, (he is an Oxford man, and very polite,) with the delightful productions of her Muse. Besides these books, there was pink paper, paper with crimson edges, lace paper, all stamped with R. F. T. (Rosa Fitzroy Timmins) and the hand and battle-axe, the crest of the Timminses (and borne at Ascalon by Roaldus de Timmins, a crusader, who is now buried in the Temple Church, next to Serjeant Snooks), and yellow, pink, light-blue and other scented sealing waxes, at the service of Rosa when she chose to correspond with her friends.

    Rosa, you may be sure, jumped with joy at the sight of this sweet present; called her Charles (his first name is Samuel, but they have sunk that) the best of men; embraced him a great number of times, to the edification of her buttony little page, who stood at the landing; and as soon as he was gone to chambers, took the new pen and a sweet sheet of paper, and began to compose a poem.

    What shall it be about? was naturally her first thought. What should be a young mother's first inspiration? Her child lay on the sofa asleep before

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