_Nota bene_--I am sure you will hear, with delight,
That we're going, all three, to see BRUNET to-night.
A laugh will revive me--and kind Mr. COX
(Do you know him?) has got us the Governor's box.
[1] The column in the Place Vendome.
[2] Miss Biddy's notions of French pronunciation may be perceived in the
rhymes which she always selects for "_Le Roi_."
[3] LE ROI, who was the _Couturiere_ of the Empress Maria Louisa, is at
present, of course, out of fashion, and is succeeded in her station by the
Royalist mantua-maker, VICTORINE.
[4] It is the _brother_ of the present excellent _Restaurateur_ who lies
entombed so magnificently in the Cimetiere Monmartre.
THE FUDGES IN ENGLAND
BEING A SEQUEL TO THE
"FUDGE FAMILY IN PARIS."
PREFACE.
The name of the country town, in England--a well-known fashionable
watering-place--in which the events that gave rise to the following
correspondence occurred, is, for obvious reasons, suppressed. The interest
attached, however, to the facts and personages of the story, renders it
independent of all time and place; and when it is recollected that the
whole train of romantic circumstances so fully unfolded in these Letters
has passed during the short period which has now elapsed since the great
Meetings in Exeter Hall, due credit will, it is hoped, be allowed to the
Editor for the rapidity with which he has brought the details before the
Public; while, at the same time any errors that may have been the result
of such haste will, he trusts, with equal consideration, be pardoned.
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