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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The London Visitor, by Mary Russell Mitford
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+Title: The London Visitor
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+Author: Mary Russell Mitford
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+Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22835]
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+THE LONDON VISITOR
+
+By Mary Russell Mitford
+
+
+Being in a state of utter mystification, (a very disagreeable state,
+by-the-bye,) I hold it advisable to lay my unhappy case, in strict
+confidence, in the lowest possible whisper, and quite in a corner,
+before my kind friend, patron, and protector, the public, through whose
+means--for now-a-days every body knows everything, and there is no
+riddle so dark but shall find an OEdipus to solve it--I may possibly
+be able to discover whether the bewilderment under which I have been
+labouring for the last three days be the result of natural causes, like
+the delusions recorded in Dr. Brewster's book, or whether there be in
+this little south of England county of ours, year 1836, a revival of
+the old science of Gramarye, the glamour art, which, according to that
+veracious minstrel, Sir Walter Scott, was exercised with such singular
+success in the sixteenth century by the Ladye of Branksome upon the good
+knight, William of Deloraine, and others his peers. In short, I want to
+know---- But the best way to make my readers understand my story, will
+be to begin at the beginning.
+
+I am a wretched visitor. There is not a person in all Berkshire who has
+so often occasion to appeal to the indulgence of her acquaintance
+to pardon her sins of omission upon this score. I cannot tell how it
+happens; nobody likes society better when in it, or is more delighted to
+see her friends; but it is almost as easy to pull a tree of my age and
+size up by the roots, as it is to dislodge me in summer from my flowery
+garden, or in the winter from my sunny parlour, for the purpose of
+accepting a dinner invitation, or making a morning call. Perhaps the
+great accumulation of my debts in this way, the very despair of ever
+paying them all, may be one reason (as is often the case, I believe, in
+pecuniary obligations) why I so seldom pay any; then, whether I do much
+or not, I have generally plenty to do; then again, I so dearly love to
+do nothing; then, summer or winter, the weather is commonly too cold
+for an open carriage, and I am eminently a catch-cold person; so that
+between wind and rain, business and idleness, no lady in the county with
+so many places that she ought to go to, goes to so few: and yet it was
+from the extraordinary event of my happening to leave home three days
+following, that my present mystification took its rise. Thus the case
+stands.
+
+Last Thursday morning, being the 23rd day of this present month of
+June, I received a note from my kind friend and neighbour, Mrs. Dunbar,
+requesting very earnestly that my father and myself would dine that
+evening at the Hall, apologising for the short notice, as arising out
+of the unexpected arrival of a guest from London, and the equally
+unexpected absence of the General, which threw her (she was pleased to
+say) upon our kindness to assist in entertaining her visitor. At seven
+o'clock, accordingly, we repaired to General Dunbar's, and found
+our hostess surrounded by her fine boys and girls, conversing with a
+gentleman, whom she immediately introduced to us as Mr. Thompson.
+
+Mr. Thompson was a gentleman of about----
+
+Pshaw! nothing is so unpolite as to go guessing how many years a man may
+have lived in this most excellent world, especially when it is perfectly
+clear, from his dress and demeanour, that the register of his birth
+is the last document relating to himself which he would care to see
+produced.
+
+Mr. Thompson, then, was a gentleman of no particular age; not quite so
+young as he had been, but still in very tolerable preservation, being
+pretty exactly that which is understood by the phrase an old beau.
+He was of middle size and middle height, with a slight stoop in the
+shoulders; a skin of the true London complexion, between brown and
+yellow, and slightly wrinkled: eyes of no very distinct colour; a nose
+which, belonging to none of the recognised classes of that many-named
+feature, may fairly be called anonymous; and a mouth, whose habitual
+mechanical smile (a smile which, by the way, conveyed no impression
+either of gaiety or of sweetness) displayed a set of teeth which did
+great honour to his dentist. His whiskers and his wig were a capital
+match as to colour; and altogether it was a head calculated to convey a
+very favourable impression of the different artists employed in getting
+it up.
+
+His dress was equally creditable to his tailor and his valet, "rather
+rich than gaudy," (as Miss Byron said of Sir Charles Grandison,) except
+in the grand article of the waistcoat, a brocade brodé of resplendent
+lustre, which combined both qualities. His shoes were bright with the
+new French blacking, and his jewellery, rings, studs, brooches, and
+chains (for he wore two, that belonging to his watch, and one from which
+depended a pair of spectacles, folded so as to resemble an eye-glass,)
+were of the finest material and the latest fashion.
+
+In short, our new acquaintance was an old beau. He was not, however,
+that which an old beau so frequently is, an old bachelor. On the
+contrary, he spoke of Mrs. Thompson and her parties, and her box at the
+opera (he did not say on what tier) with some unction, and mentioned
+with considerable pride a certain Mr. Browne, who had lately married his
+eldest daughter; Browne, be it observed, with an _e_, as his name (I beg
+his pardon for having misspelt it) was Thomson without the _p_; there
+being I know not what of dignity in the absence of the consonant, and
+the presence of the vowel, though mute. We soon found that both he and
+Mr. Browne lent these illustrious names to half a score of clubs, from
+the Athenaeum downward. We also gathered from his conversation that he
+resided somewhere in Gloucester Place or Devonshire Place, in Wimpole
+Street or Harley Street, (I could not quite make out in which of those
+respectable double rows of houses his domicile was situate,) and that he
+contemplated with considerable jealousy the manner in which the tide
+of fashion had set in to the south-west, rolling its changeful current
+round the splendid mansions of Belgrave Square, and threatening to leave
+this once distinguished quartier as bare and open to the jesters of
+the silver-fork school as the ignoble precincts of Bloomsbury. It was a
+strange mixture of feeling. He was evidently upon the point of becoming
+ashamed of a neighbourhood of which he had once been not a little proud.
+He spoke slightingly of the Regent's Park, and eschewed as much as
+possible all mention of the Diorama and the Zoological, and yet seemed
+pleased and flattered, and to take it as a sort of personal compliment,
+when Mrs. Dunbar professed her fidelity to the scene of her youthful
+gaiety, Cavendish Square and its environs.
+
+He had been, it seemed, an old friend of the General's, and had come
+down partly to see him, and partly for the purpose of a day's fishing,
+although, by some mistake in the wording of his letter, his host, who
+did not expect him until the next week, happened to be absent. This,
+however, had troubled him little. He saw the General often enough in
+town. Angling was his first object in the country; and as the fine piece
+of water in the park (famous for its enormous pike) remained _in statu
+quo_, and Edward Dunbar was ready to accompany and assist him, he had
+talked the night before of nothing but his flies and his rods, and
+boasted, in speaking of Ireland, the classic land of modern fishermen,
+of what he meant to do, and what he had done--of salmon caught in the
+wilds of Connemara, and trout drawn out amid the beauties of Killarney.
+Fishing exploits, past and future, formed the only theme of his
+conversation during his first evening at the Hall. On that which we
+spent in his company, nothing could be farther from his inclination than
+any allusion, however remote, to his beloved sport. He had been out in
+the morning, and we at last extorted from Edward Dunbar, upon a promise
+not to hint at the story until the hero of the adventure should be
+fairly off, that, after trying with exemplary patience all parts of the
+mere for several hours without so much as a nibble, a huge pike, as
+Mr. Thompson asserted, or, as Edward suspected, the root of a tree, had
+caught fast hold of the hook. If pike it were, the fish had the best of
+the battle, for, in a mighty jerk on one side or the other (the famous
+Dublin tackle maintaining its reputation, and holding as firm as the
+cordage of a man-of-war,) the unlucky angler had been fairly pulled into
+the water, and soused over head and ears. How his valet contrived to
+reinstate his coëffure, unless, indeed, he travelled with a change
+of wigs, is one of those mysteries of an old beau's toilet which pass
+female comprehension.
+
+Of course there was no further mention of angling. Our new acquaintance
+had quite subjects enough without touching upon that. In eating, for
+instance, he might fairly be called learned. Mrs. Dunbar's cuisine
+was excellent, and he not only praised the different dishes in a most
+scientific and edifying manner, but volunteered a recipe for certain
+little mutton pies, the fashion of the season. In drinking he was
+equally at home. Edward had produced his father's choicest hermitage and
+lachryma, and he seemed to me to know literally by heart all the most
+celebrated vintages, and to have made pilgrimages to the most famous
+vineyards all over Europe. He talked to Helen Dunbar, a musical
+young lady, of Grisi and Malibran; to her sister Caroline, a literary
+enthusiast, of the poems of the year, "Ion," and "Paracelsus;" to
+me he spoke of geraniums; and to my father of politics--contriving to
+conciliate both parties, (for there were Whigs and Tories in the room,)
+by dubbing himself a liberal Conservative. In short, he played his part
+of Man of the World perfectly to his own satisfaction, and would have
+passed with the whole family for the very model of all London visitors,
+had he not unfortunately nodded over certain verses which he had
+flattered Miss Caroline into producing, and fallen fast asleep during
+her sister's cavatina; and if his conversation, however easy and smooth,
+had not been felt to be upon the whole rather vapid and prosy. "Just
+exactly," said young Edward Dunbar, who, in the migration transit
+between Eton, which he had left at Easter, and Oxford, which he was
+to enter at Michaelmas, was plentifully imbued with the aristocratic
+prejudices common to each of those venerable seats of learning "just
+exactly what in the fitness of things the talk of a Mr. Thompson ought
+to be."
+
+The next afternoon I happened to be engaged to the Lady Margaret Gore,
+another pleasant neighbour, to drink tea; a convenient fashion, which
+saves time and trouble, and is much followed in these parts during the
+summer months. A little after eight I made my appearance in her saloon,
+which, contrary to her usual polite attention, I found empty. In the
+course of a few minutes she entered, and apologised for her momentary
+absence, as having been caused by a London gentleman on a visit at the
+house, who arriving the evening before, had spent all that morning at
+the side of Loddon fishing, (where, by the way, observed her ladyship,
+he had caught nothing,) and had kept them waiting dinner. "He is a
+very old friend of ours," added Lady Margaret; "Mr. Thompson, of Harley
+Street, whose daughter lately married Mr. Browne of Gloucester Place,"
+and, with the word, entered Mr. Thompson in his own proper person.
+
+Was it or was it not the Mr. Thompson of the day before? Yes! no!----
+No! yes! It would have been, only that it could not be. The alibi was
+too clearly proved: Lady Margaret had spent the preceding evening with
+_her_ Mr. Thompson in one place, and I myself with _my_ Mr. Thompson
+in another. Different they must be, but oh, how alike! I am too
+short-sighted to be cognizant of each separate feature. But there it
+was, the same common height and common size, and common physiognomy,
+wigged, whiskered, and perfumed to a hair! The self-same sober
+magnificence of dress, the same cut and colour of coat, the same
+waistcoat of brocade brodé--of a surety they must have employed one
+identical tailor, and one measure had served for both! Chains, studs,
+brooches, rings--even the eye-glass spectacles were there. Had he (this
+he) stolen them? Or did the Thompsons use them alternately, upon the
+principle of ride and tie?
+
+In conversation the similarity was even more striking--safe, civil,
+prosy, dosy, and yet not without a certain small pretension. The Mr.
+Thompson of Friday talked as his predecessor of Thursday had done, of
+Malibran and Grisi, "Paracelsus" and "Ion," politics and geraniums. He
+alluded to a recipe (doubtless the famous recipe for mutton pies) which
+he had promised to write out for the benefit of the housekeeper, and
+would beyond all question have dosed over one young lady's verses, and
+fallen asleep to another's singing, if there had happened to be such
+narcotics as music and poetry in dear Lady Margaret's drawing-room. Mind
+and body, the two Mr. Thompsons were as alike as two peas, as two drops
+of water, as two Emperor-of-Morocco butterflies, as two death's-head
+moths. Could they have been twin brothers, like the Dromios of the old
+drama? or was the vicinity of the Regent's Park peopled with Cockney
+anglers--Thompsons whose daughters had married Brownes?
+
+The resemblance haunted me all night. I dreamt of Brownes and Thompsons,
+and to freshen my fancy and sweep away the shapes by which I was beset,
+I resolved to take a drive. Accordingly, I ordered my little phaeton,
+and, perplexed and silent, bent my way to call upon my fair friend,
+Miss Mortimer. Arriving at Queen's-bridge Cottage, I was met in the
+rose-covered porch by the fair Frances. "Come this way, if you please,"
+said she, advancing towards the dining-room; "we are late at luncheon
+to-day. My friend, Mrs. Browne, and her father, Mr. Thompson, our old
+neighbours when we lived in Welbeck Street, have been here for this week
+past, and he is so fond of fishing that he will scarcely leave the river
+even to take his meals, although for aught I can hear he never gets so
+much as a bite."
+
+As she ceased to speak, we entered: and another Mr. Thompson--another,
+yet the same, stood before me. It was not yet four o'clock in the
+day, therefore of course the dress-coat and the brocade waistcoat were
+wanting; but there was the man himself, Thompson the third, wigged,
+whiskered, and eye-glassed, just as Thompson the first might have
+tumbled into the water at General Dunbar's, or Thompson the second have
+stood waiting for a nibble at Lady Margaret's. There he sat evidently
+preparing to do the agreeable, to talk of music and of poetry, of Grisi
+and Malibran, of "Ion" and "Paracelsus," to profess himself a liberal
+Conservative, to give recipes for pates, and to fall asleep over
+albums. It was quite clear that he was about to make this display of
+his conversational abilities; but I could not stand it. Nervous and
+mystified as the poor Frenchman in the memorable story of "Monsieur
+Tonson," I instinctively followed his example, and fairly fled the
+field.
+
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+    <h1>
+      THE LONDON VISITOR
+    </h1>
+    <h2>
+      By Mary Russell Mitford
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Being in a state of utter mystification, (a very disagreeable state,
+      by-the-bye,) I hold it advisable to lay my unhappy case, in strict
+      confidence, in the lowest possible whisper, and quite in a corner, before
+      my kind friend, patron, and protector, the public, through whose means&mdash;for
+      now-a-days every body knows everything, and there is no riddle so dark but
+      shall find an OEdipus to solve it&mdash;I may possibly be able to discover
+      whether the bewilderment under which I have been labouring for the last
+      three days be the result of natural causes, like the delusions recorded in
+      Dr. Brewster's book, or whether there be in this little south of England
+      county of ours, year 1836, a revival of the old science of Gramarye, the
+      glamour art, which, according to that veracious minstrel, Sir Walter
+      Scott, was exercised with such singular success in the sixteenth century
+      by the Ladye of Branksome upon the good knight, William of Deloraine, and
+      others his peers. In short, I want to know&mdash;&mdash; But the best way
+      to make my readers understand my story, will be to begin at the beginning.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I am a wretched visitor. There is not a person in all Berkshire who has so
+      often occasion to appeal to the indulgence of her acquaintance to pardon
+      her sins of omission upon this score. I cannot tell how it happens; nobody
+      likes society better when in it, or is more delighted to see her friends;
+      but it is almost as easy to pull a tree of my age and size up by the
+      roots, as it is to dislodge me in summer from my flowery garden, or in the
+      winter from my sunny parlour, for the purpose of accepting a dinner
+      invitation, or making a morning call. Perhaps the great accumulation of my
+      debts in this way, the very despair of ever paying them all, may be one
+      reason (as is often the case, I believe, in pecuniary obligations) why I
+      so seldom pay any; then, whether I do much or not, I have generally plenty
+      to do; then again, I so dearly love to do nothing; then, summer or winter,
+      the weather is commonly too cold for an open carriage, and I am eminently
+      a catch-cold person; so that between wind and rain, business and idleness,
+      no lady in the county with so many places that she ought to go to, goes to
+      so few: and yet it was from the extraordinary event of my happening to
+      leave home three days following, that my present mystification took its
+      rise. Thus the case stands.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Last Thursday morning, being the 23rd day of this present month of June, I
+      received a note from my kind friend and neighbour, Mrs. Dunbar, requesting
+      very earnestly that my father and myself would dine that evening at the
+      Hall, apologising for the short notice, as arising out of the unexpected
+      arrival of a guest from London, and the equally unexpected absence of the
+      General, which threw her (she was pleased to say) upon our kindness to
+      assist in entertaining her visitor. At seven o'clock, accordingly, we
+      repaired to General Dunbar's, and found our hostess surrounded by her fine
+      boys and girls, conversing with a gentleman, whom she immediately
+      introduced to us as Mr. Thompson.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mr. Thompson was a gentleman of about&mdash;&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Pshaw! nothing is so unpolite as to go guessing how many years a man may
+      have lived in this most excellent world, especially when it is perfectly
+      clear, from his dress and demeanour, that the register of his birth is the
+      last document relating to himself which he would care to see produced.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mr. Thompson, then, was a gentleman of no particular age; not quite so
+      young as he had been, but still in very tolerable preservation, being
+      pretty exactly that which is understood by the phrase an old beau. He was
+      of middle size and middle height, with a slight stoop in the shoulders; a
+      skin of the true London complexion, between brown and yellow, and slightly
+      wrinkled: eyes of no very distinct colour; a nose which, belonging to none
+      of the recognised classes of that many-named feature, may fairly be called
+      anonymous; and a mouth, whose habitual mechanical smile (a smile which, by
+      the way, conveyed no impression either of gaiety or of sweetness)
+      displayed a set of teeth which did great honour to his dentist. His
+      whiskers and his wig were a capital match as to colour; and altogether it
+      was a head calculated to convey a very favourable impression of the
+      different artists employed in getting it up.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      His dress was equally creditable to his tailor and his valet, "rather rich
+      than gaudy," (as Miss Byron said of Sir Charles Grandison,) except in the
+      grand article of the waistcoat, a brocade brodé of resplendent lustre,
+      which combined both qualities. His shoes were bright with the new French
+      blacking, and his jewellery, rings, studs, brooches, and chains (for he
+      wore two, that belonging to his watch, and one from which depended a pair
+      of spectacles, folded so as to resemble an eye-glass,) were of the finest
+      material and the latest fashion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In short, our new acquaintance was an old beau. He was not, however, that
+      which an old beau so frequently is, an old bachelor. On the contrary, he
+      spoke of Mrs. Thompson and her parties, and her box at the opera (he did
+      not say on what tier) with some unction, and mentioned with considerable
+      pride a certain Mr. Browne, who had lately married his eldest daughter;
+      Browne, be it observed, with an <i>e</i>, as his name (I beg his pardon
+      for having misspelt it) was Thomson without the <i>p</i>; there being I
+      know not what of dignity in the absence of the consonant, and the presence
+      of the vowel, though mute. We soon found that both he and Mr. Browne lent
+      these illustrious names to half a score of clubs, from the Athenaeum
+      downward. We also gathered from his conversation that he resided somewhere
+      in Gloucester Place or Devonshire Place, in Wimpole Street or Harley
+      Street, (I could not quite make out in which of those respectable double
+      rows of houses his domicile was situate,) and that he contemplated with
+      considerable jealousy the manner in which the tide of fashion had set in
+      to the south-west, rolling its changeful current round the splendid
+      mansions of Belgrave Square, and threatening to leave this once
+      distinguished quartier as bare and open to the jesters of the silver-fork
+      school as the ignoble precincts of Bloomsbury. It was a strange mixture of
+      feeling. He was evidently upon the point of becoming ashamed of a
+      neighbourhood of which he had once been not a little proud. He spoke
+      slightingly of the Regent's Park, and eschewed as much as possible all
+      mention of the Diorama and the Zoological, and yet seemed pleased and
+      flattered, and to take it as a sort of personal compliment, when Mrs.
+      Dunbar professed her fidelity to the scene of her youthful gaiety,
+      Cavendish Square and its environs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He had been, it seemed, an old friend of the General's, and had come down
+      partly to see him, and partly for the purpose of a day's fishing,
+      although, by some mistake in the wording of his letter, his host, who did
+      not expect him until the next week, happened to be absent. This, however,
+      had troubled him little. He saw the General often enough in town. Angling
+      was his first object in the country; and as the fine piece of water in the
+      park (famous for its enormous pike) remained <i>in statu quo</i>, and
+      Edward Dunbar was ready to accompany and assist him, he had talked the
+      night before of nothing but his flies and his rods, and boasted, in
+      speaking of Ireland, the classic land of modern fishermen, of what he
+      meant to do, and what he had done&mdash;of salmon caught in the wilds of
+      Connemara, and trout drawn out amid the beauties of Killarney. Fishing
+      exploits, past and future, formed the only theme of his conversation
+      during his first evening at the Hall. On that which we spent in his
+      company, nothing could be farther from his inclination than any allusion,
+      however remote, to his beloved sport. He had been out in the morning, and
+      we at last extorted from Edward Dunbar, upon a promise not to hint at the
+      story until the hero of the adventure should be fairly off, that, after
+      trying with exemplary patience all parts of the mere for several hours
+      without so much as a nibble, a huge pike, as Mr. Thompson asserted, or, as
+      Edward suspected, the root of a tree, had caught fast hold of the hook. If
+      pike it were, the fish had the best of the battle, for, in a mighty jerk
+      on one side or the other (the famous Dublin tackle maintaining its
+      reputation, and holding as firm as the cordage of a man-of-war,) the
+      unlucky angler had been fairly pulled into the water, and soused over head
+      and ears. How his valet contrived to reinstate his coëffure, unless,
+      indeed, he travelled with a change of wigs, is one of those mysteries of
+      an old beau's toilet which pass female comprehension.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Of course there was no further mention of angling. Our new acquaintance
+      had quite subjects enough without touching upon that. In eating, for
+      instance, he might fairly be called learned. Mrs. Dunbar's cuisine was
+      excellent, and he not only praised the different dishes in a most
+      scientific and edifying manner, but volunteered a recipe for certain
+      little mutton pies, the fashion of the season. In drinking he was equally
+      at home. Edward had produced his father's choicest hermitage and lachryma,
+      and he seemed to me to know literally by heart all the most celebrated
+      vintages, and to have made pilgrimages to the most famous vineyards all
+      over Europe. He talked to Helen Dunbar, a musical young lady, of Grisi and
+      Malibran; to her sister Caroline, a literary enthusiast, of the poems of
+      the year, "Ion," and "Paracelsus;" to me he spoke of geraniums; and to my
+      father of politics&mdash;contriving to conciliate both parties, (for there
+      were Whigs and Tories in the room,) by dubbing himself a liberal
+      Conservative. In short, he played his part of Man of the World perfectly
+      to his own satisfaction, and would have passed with the whole family for
+      the very model of all London visitors, had he not unfortunately nodded
+      over certain verses which he had flattered Miss Caroline into producing,
+      and fallen fast asleep during her sister's cavatina; and if his
+      conversation, however easy and smooth, had not been felt to be upon the
+      whole rather vapid and prosy. "Just exactly," said young Edward Dunbar,
+      who, in the migration transit between Eton, which he had left at Easter,
+      and Oxford, which he was to enter at Michaelmas, was plentifully imbued
+      with the aristocratic prejudices common to each of those venerable seats
+      of learning "just exactly what in the fitness of things the talk of a Mr.
+      Thompson ought to be."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The next afternoon I happened to be engaged to the Lady Margaret Gore,
+      another pleasant neighbour, to drink tea; a convenient fashion, which
+      saves time and trouble, and is much followed in these parts during the
+      summer months. A little after eight I made my appearance in her saloon,
+      which, contrary to her usual polite attention, I found empty. In the
+      course of a few minutes she entered, and apologised for her momentary
+      absence, as having been caused by a London gentleman on a visit at the
+      house, who arriving the evening before, had spent all that morning at the
+      side of Loddon fishing, (where, by the way, observed her ladyship, he had
+      caught nothing,) and had kept them waiting dinner. "He is a very old
+      friend of ours," added Lady Margaret; "Mr. Thompson, of Harley Street,
+      whose daughter lately married Mr. Browne of Gloucester Place," and, with
+      the word, entered Mr. Thompson in his own proper person.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Was it or was it not the Mr. Thompson of the day before? Yes! no!&mdash;&mdash;
+      No! yes! It would have been, only that it could not be. The alibi was too
+      clearly proved: Lady Margaret had spent the preceding evening with <i>her</i>
+      Mr. Thompson in one place, and I myself with <i>my</i> Mr. Thompson in
+      another. Different they must be, but oh, how alike! I am too short-sighted
+      to be cognizant of each separate feature. But there it was, the same
+      common height and common size, and common physiognomy, wigged, whiskered,
+      and perfumed to a hair! The self-same sober magnificence of dress, the
+      same cut and colour of coat, the same waistcoat of brocade brodé&mdash;of
+      a surety they must have employed one identical tailor, and one measure had
+      served for both! Chains, studs, brooches, rings&mdash;even the eye-glass
+      spectacles were there. Had he (this he) stolen them? Or did the Thompsons
+      use them alternately, upon the principle of ride and tie?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In conversation the similarity was even more striking&mdash;safe, civil,
+      prosy, dosy, and yet not without a certain small pretension. The Mr.
+      Thompson of Friday talked as his predecessor of Thursday had done, of
+      Malibran and Grisi, "Paracelsus" and "Ion," politics and geraniums. He
+      alluded to a recipe (doubtless the famous recipe for mutton pies) which he
+      had promised to write out for the benefit of the housekeeper, and would
+      beyond all question have dosed over one young lady's verses, and fallen
+      asleep to another's singing, if there had happened to be such narcotics as
+      music and poetry in dear Lady Margaret's drawing-room. Mind and body, the
+      two Mr. Thompsons were as alike as two peas, as two drops of water, as two
+      Emperor-of-Morocco butterflies, as two death's-head moths. Could they have
+      been twin brothers, like the Dromios of the old drama? or was the vicinity
+      of the Regent's Park peopled with Cockney anglers&mdash;Thompsons whose
+      daughters had married Brownes?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The resemblance haunted me all night. I dreamt of Brownes and Thompsons,
+      and to freshen my fancy and sweep away the shapes by which I was beset, I
+      resolved to take a drive. Accordingly, I ordered my little phaeton, and,
+      perplexed and silent, bent my way to call upon my fair friend, Miss
+      Mortimer. Arriving at Queen's-bridge Cottage, I was met in the
+      rose-covered porch by the fair Frances. "Come this way, if you please,"
+      said she, advancing towards the dining-room; "we are late at luncheon
+      to-day. My friend, Mrs. Browne, and her father, Mr. Thompson, our old
+      neighbours when we lived in Welbeck Street, have been here for this week
+      past, and he is so fond of fishing that he will scarcely leave the river
+      even to take his meals, although for aught I can hear he never gets so
+      much as a bite."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As she ceased to speak, we entered: and another Mr. Thompson&mdash;another,
+      yet the same, stood before me. It was not yet four o'clock in the day,
+      therefore of course the dress-coat and the brocade waistcoat were wanting;
+      but there was the man himself, Thompson the third, wigged, whiskered, and
+      eye-glassed, just as Thompson the first might have tumbled into the water
+      at General Dunbar's, or Thompson the second have stood waiting for a
+      nibble at Lady Margaret's. There he sat evidently preparing to do the
+      agreeable, to talk of music and of poetry, of Grisi and Malibran, of "Ion"
+      and "Paracelsus," to profess himself a liberal Conservative, to give
+      recipes for pates, and to fall asleep over albums. It was quite clear that
+      he was about to make this display of his conversational abilities; but I
+      could not stand it. Nervous and mystified as the poor Frenchman in the
+      memorable story of "Monsieur Tonson," I instinctively followed his
+      example, and fairly fled the field.
+    </p>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The London Visitor, by Mary Russell Mitford
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
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+Title: The London Visitor
+
+Author: Mary Russell Mitford
+
+Release Date: October 2, 2007 [EBook #22835]
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+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LONDON VISITOR ***
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+Produced by David Widger
+
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+
+
+THE LONDON VISITOR
+
+By Mary Russell Mitford
+
+
+Being in a state of utter mystification, (a very disagreeable state,
+by-the-bye,) I hold it advisable to lay my unhappy case, in strict
+confidence, in the lowest possible whisper, and quite in a corner,
+before my kind friend, patron, and protector, the public, through whose
+means--for now-a-days every body knows everything, and there is no
+riddle so dark but shall find an OEdipus to solve it--I may possibly
+be able to discover whether the bewilderment under which I have been
+labouring for the last three days be the result of natural causes, like
+the delusions recorded in Dr. Brewster's book, or whether there be in
+this little south of England county of ours, year 1836, a revival of
+the old science of Gramarye, the glamour art, which, according to that
+veracious minstrel, Sir Walter Scott, was exercised with such singular
+success in the sixteenth century by the Ladye of Branksome upon the good
+knight, William of Deloraine, and others his peers. In short, I want to
+know---- But the best way to make my readers understand my story, will
+be to begin at the beginning.
+
+I am a wretched visitor. There is not a person in all Berkshire who has
+so often occasion to appeal to the indulgence of her acquaintance
+to pardon her sins of omission upon this score. I cannot tell how it
+happens; nobody likes society better when in it, or is more delighted to
+see her friends; but it is almost as easy to pull a tree of my age and
+size up by the roots, as it is to dislodge me in summer from my flowery
+garden, or in the winter from my sunny parlour, for the purpose of
+accepting a dinner invitation, or making a morning call. Perhaps the
+great accumulation of my debts in this way, the very despair of ever
+paying them all, may be one reason (as is often the case, I believe, in
+pecuniary obligations) why I so seldom pay any; then, whether I do much
+or not, I have generally plenty to do; then again, I so dearly love to
+do nothing; then, summer or winter, the weather is commonly too cold
+for an open carriage, and I am eminently a catch-cold person; so that
+between wind and rain, business and idleness, no lady in the county with
+so many places that she ought to go to, goes to so few: and yet it was
+from the extraordinary event of my happening to leave home three days
+following, that my present mystification took its rise. Thus the case
+stands.
+
+Last Thursday morning, being the 23rd day of this present month of
+June, I received a note from my kind friend and neighbour, Mrs. Dunbar,
+requesting very earnestly that my father and myself would dine that
+evening at the Hall, apologising for the short notice, as arising out
+of the unexpected arrival of a guest from London, and the equally
+unexpected absence of the General, which threw her (she was pleased to
+say) upon our kindness to assist in entertaining her visitor. At seven
+o'clock, accordingly, we repaired to General Dunbar's, and found
+our hostess surrounded by her fine boys and girls, conversing with a
+gentleman, whom she immediately introduced to us as Mr. Thompson.
+
+Mr. Thompson was a gentleman of about----
+
+Pshaw! nothing is so unpolite as to go guessing how many years a man may
+have lived in this most excellent world, especially when it is perfectly
+clear, from his dress and demeanour, that the register of his birth
+is the last document relating to himself which he would care to see
+produced.
+
+Mr. Thompson, then, was a gentleman of no particular age; not quite so
+young as he had been, but still in very tolerable preservation, being
+pretty exactly that which is understood by the phrase an old beau.
+He was of middle size and middle height, with a slight stoop in the
+shoulders; a skin of the true London complexion, between brown and
+yellow, and slightly wrinkled: eyes of no very distinct colour; a nose
+which, belonging to none of the recognised classes of that many-named
+feature, may fairly be called anonymous; and a mouth, whose habitual
+mechanical smile (a smile which, by the way, conveyed no impression
+either of gaiety or of sweetness) displayed a set of teeth which did
+great honour to his dentist. His whiskers and his wig were a capital
+match as to colour; and altogether it was a head calculated to convey a
+very favourable impression of the different artists employed in getting
+it up.
+
+His dress was equally creditable to his tailor and his valet, "rather
+rich than gaudy," (as Miss Byron said of Sir Charles Grandison,) except
+in the grand article of the waistcoat, a brocade brode of resplendent
+lustre, which combined both qualities. His shoes were bright with the
+new French blacking, and his jewellery, rings, studs, brooches, and
+chains (for he wore two, that belonging to his watch, and one from which
+depended a pair of spectacles, folded so as to resemble an eye-glass,)
+were of the finest material and the latest fashion.
+
+In short, our new acquaintance was an old beau. He was not, however,
+that which an old beau so frequently is, an old bachelor. On the
+contrary, he spoke of Mrs. Thompson and her parties, and her box at the
+opera (he did not say on what tier) with some unction, and mentioned
+with considerable pride a certain Mr. Browne, who had lately married his
+eldest daughter; Browne, be it observed, with an _e_, as his name (I beg
+his pardon for having misspelt it) was Thomson without the _p_; there
+being I know not what of dignity in the absence of the consonant, and
+the presence of the vowel, though mute. We soon found that both he and
+Mr. Browne lent these illustrious names to half a score of clubs, from
+the Athenaeum downward. We also gathered from his conversation that he
+resided somewhere in Gloucester Place or Devonshire Place, in Wimpole
+Street or Harley Street, (I could not quite make out in which of those
+respectable double rows of houses his domicile was situate,) and that he
+contemplated with considerable jealousy the manner in which the tide
+of fashion had set in to the south-west, rolling its changeful current
+round the splendid mansions of Belgrave Square, and threatening to leave
+this once distinguished quartier as bare and open to the jesters of
+the silver-fork school as the ignoble precincts of Bloomsbury. It was a
+strange mixture of feeling. He was evidently upon the point of becoming
+ashamed of a neighbourhood of which he had once been not a little proud.
+He spoke slightingly of the Regent's Park, and eschewed as much as
+possible all mention of the Diorama and the Zoological, and yet seemed
+pleased and flattered, and to take it as a sort of personal compliment,
+when Mrs. Dunbar professed her fidelity to the scene of her youthful
+gaiety, Cavendish Square and its environs.
+
+He had been, it seemed, an old friend of the General's, and had come
+down partly to see him, and partly for the purpose of a day's fishing,
+although, by some mistake in the wording of his letter, his host, who
+did not expect him until the next week, happened to be absent. This,
+however, had troubled him little. He saw the General often enough in
+town. Angling was his first object in the country; and as the fine piece
+of water in the park (famous for its enormous pike) remained _in statu
+quo_, and Edward Dunbar was ready to accompany and assist him, he had
+talked the night before of nothing but his flies and his rods, and
+boasted, in speaking of Ireland, the classic land of modern fishermen,
+of what he meant to do, and what he had done--of salmon caught in the
+wilds of Connemara, and trout drawn out amid the beauties of Killarney.
+Fishing exploits, past and future, formed the only theme of his
+conversation during his first evening at the Hall. On that which we
+spent in his company, nothing could be farther from his inclination than
+any allusion, however remote, to his beloved sport. He had been out in
+the morning, and we at last extorted from Edward Dunbar, upon a promise
+not to hint at the story until the hero of the adventure should be
+fairly off, that, after trying with exemplary patience all parts of the
+mere for several hours without so much as a nibble, a huge pike, as
+Mr. Thompson asserted, or, as Edward suspected, the root of a tree, had
+caught fast hold of the hook. If pike it were, the fish had the best of
+the battle, for, in a mighty jerk on one side or the other (the famous
+Dublin tackle maintaining its reputation, and holding as firm as the
+cordage of a man-of-war,) the unlucky angler had been fairly pulled into
+the water, and soused over head and ears. How his valet contrived to
+reinstate his coeffure, unless, indeed, he travelled with a change
+of wigs, is one of those mysteries of an old beau's toilet which pass
+female comprehension.
+
+Of course there was no further mention of angling. Our new acquaintance
+had quite subjects enough without touching upon that. In eating, for
+instance, he might fairly be called learned. Mrs. Dunbar's cuisine
+was excellent, and he not only praised the different dishes in a most
+scientific and edifying manner, but volunteered a recipe for certain
+little mutton pies, the fashion of the season. In drinking he was
+equally at home. Edward had produced his father's choicest hermitage and
+lachryma, and he seemed to me to know literally by heart all the most
+celebrated vintages, and to have made pilgrimages to the most famous
+vineyards all over Europe. He talked to Helen Dunbar, a musical
+young lady, of Grisi and Malibran; to her sister Caroline, a literary
+enthusiast, of the poems of the year, "Ion," and "Paracelsus;" to
+me he spoke of geraniums; and to my father of politics--contriving to
+conciliate both parties, (for there were Whigs and Tories in the room,)
+by dubbing himself a liberal Conservative. In short, he played his part
+of Man of the World perfectly to his own satisfaction, and would have
+passed with the whole family for the very model of all London visitors,
+had he not unfortunately nodded over certain verses which he had
+flattered Miss Caroline into producing, and fallen fast asleep during
+her sister's cavatina; and if his conversation, however easy and smooth,
+had not been felt to be upon the whole rather vapid and prosy. "Just
+exactly," said young Edward Dunbar, who, in the migration transit
+between Eton, which he had left at Easter, and Oxford, which he was
+to enter at Michaelmas, was plentifully imbued with the aristocratic
+prejudices common to each of those venerable seats of learning "just
+exactly what in the fitness of things the talk of a Mr. Thompson ought
+to be."
+
+The next afternoon I happened to be engaged to the Lady Margaret Gore,
+another pleasant neighbour, to drink tea; a convenient fashion, which
+saves time and trouble, and is much followed in these parts during the
+summer months. A little after eight I made my appearance in her saloon,
+which, contrary to her usual polite attention, I found empty. In the
+course of a few minutes she entered, and apologised for her momentary
+absence, as having been caused by a London gentleman on a visit at the
+house, who arriving the evening before, had spent all that morning at
+the side of Loddon fishing, (where, by the way, observed her ladyship,
+he had caught nothing,) and had kept them waiting dinner. "He is a
+very old friend of ours," added Lady Margaret; "Mr. Thompson, of Harley
+Street, whose daughter lately married Mr. Browne of Gloucester Place,"
+and, with the word, entered Mr. Thompson in his own proper person.
+
+Was it or was it not the Mr. Thompson of the day before? Yes! no!----
+No! yes! It would have been, only that it could not be. The alibi was
+too clearly proved: Lady Margaret had spent the preceding evening with
+_her_ Mr. Thompson in one place, and I myself with _my_ Mr. Thompson
+in another. Different they must be, but oh, how alike! I am too
+short-sighted to be cognizant of each separate feature. But there it
+was, the same common height and common size, and common physiognomy,
+wigged, whiskered, and perfumed to a hair! The self-same sober
+magnificence of dress, the same cut and colour of coat, the same
+waistcoat of brocade brode--of a surety they must have employed one
+identical tailor, and one measure had served for both! Chains, studs,
+brooches, rings--even the eye-glass spectacles were there. Had he (this
+he) stolen them? Or did the Thompsons use them alternately, upon the
+principle of ride and tie?
+
+In conversation the similarity was even more striking--safe, civil,
+prosy, dosy, and yet not without a certain small pretension. The Mr.
+Thompson of Friday talked as his predecessor of Thursday had done, of
+Malibran and Grisi, "Paracelsus" and "Ion," politics and geraniums. He
+alluded to a recipe (doubtless the famous recipe for mutton pies) which
+he had promised to write out for the benefit of the housekeeper, and
+would beyond all question have dosed over one young lady's verses, and
+fallen asleep to another's singing, if there had happened to be such
+narcotics as music and poetry in dear Lady Margaret's drawing-room. Mind
+and body, the two Mr. Thompsons were as alike as two peas, as two drops
+of water, as two Emperor-of-Morocco butterflies, as two death's-head
+moths. Could they have been twin brothers, like the Dromios of the old
+drama? or was the vicinity of the Regent's Park peopled with Cockney
+anglers--Thompsons whose daughters had married Brownes?
+
+The resemblance haunted me all night. I dreamt of Brownes and Thompsons,
+and to freshen my fancy and sweep away the shapes by which I was beset,
+I resolved to take a drive. Accordingly, I ordered my little phaeton,
+and, perplexed and silent, bent my way to call upon my fair friend,
+Miss Mortimer. Arriving at Queen's-bridge Cottage, I was met in the
+rose-covered porch by the fair Frances. "Come this way, if you please,"
+said she, advancing towards the dining-room; "we are late at luncheon
+to-day. My friend, Mrs. Browne, and her father, Mr. Thompson, our old
+neighbours when we lived in Welbeck Street, have been here for this week
+past, and he is so fond of fishing that he will scarcely leave the river
+even to take his meals, although for aught I can hear he never gets so
+much as a bite."
+
+As she ceased to speak, we entered: and another Mr. Thompson--another,
+yet the same, stood before me. It was not yet four o'clock in the
+day, therefore of course the dress-coat and the brocade waistcoat were
+wanting; but there was the man himself, Thompson the third, wigged,
+whiskered, and eye-glassed, just as Thompson the first might have
+tumbled into the water at General Dunbar's, or Thompson the second have
+stood waiting for a nibble at Lady Margaret's. There he sat evidently
+preparing to do the agreeable, to talk of music and of poetry, of Grisi
+and Malibran, of "Ion" and "Paracelsus," to profess himself a liberal
+Conservative, to give recipes for pates, and to fall asleep over
+albums. It was quite clear that he was about to make this display of
+his conversational abilities; but I could not stand it. Nervous and
+mystified as the poor Frenchman in the memorable story of "Monsieur
+Tonson," I instinctively followed his example, and fairly fled the
+field.
+
+
+
+
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