The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101,July 18, 1891, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 18, 1891Author: VariousRelease Date: September 12, 2004 [EBook #13446]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH ***Produced by Malcolm Farmer, William Flis, and the Online DistributedProofreading Team.PUNCH,OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.Vol. 101.July 18, 1891.LETTERS TO ABSTRACTIONS.No. II.—TO SOCIAL AMBITION.DEAR SIR, OR MADAM,I had not intended to annoy you with another letter. But since I addressed you last week I have received one or twocommunications—not from you, bien entendu, for you are too wary to dispute the accuracy of what I have written; butfrom concrete human beings, who pretend to speak on your behalf, and deny that I have "proved my case." I mightanswer by saying that I never set out to prove a case—that I wished merely to enjoy a friendly chat with you, and to appealto your clemency on behalf of the large class whom I ventured to represent by the DABCHICKS. "But," says one of mydetractors, in a letter now lying before me, "you have only given one instance. You have talked grandly about Queens, andDukes, and actresses, and, ...
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