What Blest Genius? by Andrew McConnell Stott

Author:Andrew McConnell Stott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

Despite the extortion, Jubilee favors continued to sell well, as did Jubilee handkerchiefs in white and red, and the gold, silver, and copper medals styled after the one worn by Garrick. Sales of ribbons were accounted at “a thousand pounds,” and of medals “it is conjectured treble that sum, even upon a moderate computation,” which some in this time of economic depression and national unrest found excessive: “Yet we are distressed all this time our trade is utterly gone, and we are taxed up to the very verge of destruction.” At least Musidorus could record one touching “instance of conscience,” when the cook in his lodgings sent out the intestines of the chicken he had ordered arranged next to the meat, “and told us, that as her Mistress charged enough for every thing, it was but reasonable we should have our property entire.”

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