A little World

A little World

Some people are such fools! said Richard Pellet; and, if public judgment was right, he knew what a fool was as well as any man in the great city of London. He was a big man was Richard Pellet, Esq., C.C., shipper, of Austin Friars, and known among city men as "the six-hundred-pounder;" and he knew a fool when he saw one. But whether at his office in the city, or down at his place at Norwood,--"his little place at Norwood," where he had "a morsel of garden" and "a bit of glass," and grew pine and melon, peach and grape, and had a fat butler in black, and a staff of servants in drab, trimmed with yellow coach-lace,--no matter where Richard Pellet might be, he could always see in his mind's eye the greatest fool that ever breathed--the man whom he was always mentally abusing--to wit, his brother Jared.

George Manville Fenn

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2010-10-26