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rase, familiar to the streets of Bristol, allowed her no longer to misunderstand his meaning; and she quitted the room in a tumult of laughter, sending a servant to show her unfortunate suitor out of the house, with his false friend the dictionary; whose help he might, perhaps, invoke for the last time, on making his exit, in the curses--'Udswoggers, Boblikins, Bublikins, Splitterkins!' N.B. As test words for trying a _modern_ German dictionary, I will advise the student to look for the words--_Beschwichtigen Kulisse_, and _Mansarde_. The last is originally French, but the first is a true German word; and, on a question arising about its etymology, at the house of a gentleman in Edinburgh, could not be found in any one, out of five or six modern Anglo-German dictionaries. THE END. RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON & BUNGAY. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2, by Thomas de Quincey *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THOMAS DE QUINCEY *** ***** This file should be named 20090.txt or 20090.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/0/0/9/20090/ Produced by Robert Connal, Paul Good and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and res
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