The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Humorous stories, Satire, Rogues and vagabonds -- Fiction, Europe -- Fiction, Ireland -- Fiction, Irish -- Foreign countries -- Fiction, Gamblers -- Fiction
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2016-03-18T22:30:35+00:00

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This was the story told by Ma­dame de Li­li­engarten, and the reader will have no dif­fi­culty in draw­ing from it that part which af­fected my­self and my uncle; who, after six weeks of ar­rest, were set at liberty, but with or­ders to quit the duchy im­me­di­ately: in­deed, with an es­cort of dra­goons to con­duct us to the fron­tier. What prop­erty we had, we were al­lowed to sell and real­ise in money; but none of our play debts were paid to us: and all my hopes of the Count­ess Ida were thus at an end.

When Duke Victor came to the throne, which he did when, six months after, apo­plexy car­ried off the old sov­er­eign his father, all the good old us­ages of X—— were given up—play for­bid­den; the op­era and bal­let sent to the right-about; and the re­gi­ments which the old Duke had sold re­called from their for­eign ser­vice: with them came my Count­ess’s beg­garly cousin the en­sign, and he mar­ried her. I don’t know whether they were happy or not. It is cer­tain that a wo­man of such a poor spirit did not merit any very high de­gree of pleas­ure.

The now reign­ing Duke of X—— him­self mar­ried four years after his first wife’s de­mise, and Geld­ern, though no longer Po­lice Min­is­ter, built the grand house of which Ma­dame de Li­li­engarten spoke. What be­came of the minor act­ors in the great tragedy, who knows? Only Mon­sieur de Stras­bourg was re­stored to his du­ties. Of the rest—the Jew, the cham­ber-wo­man, the spy on Magny—I know noth­ing. Those sharp tools with which great people cut out their en­ter­prises are gen­er­ally broken in the us­ing: nor did I ever hear that their em­ploy­ers had much re­gard for them in their ruin.

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