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The Diary of a Nobody
·
George Grossmith Weedon Grossmith
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Carrie
said
I
was
quite
a
philosopher;
but
Lupin,
in
a
jeering
tone,
said:
“If
it
had
been
written
on
larger
paper,
Guv.,
we
might
get
a
fair
price
from
a
butterman
for
it.”
As
I
am
in
the
prospective
vein,
I
vow
the
end
of
this
year
will
see
the
end
of
my
diary.
DECEMBER
19.—
The
annual
invitation
came
to
spend
Christmas
with
Carrie’s
mother—
the
usual
family
festive
gathering
to
which
we
always
look
forward.
Lupin
declined
to
go.
I
was
astounded,
and
expressed
my
surprise
and
disgust.
Lupin
then
obliged
us
with
the
following
Radical
speech:
“I
hate
a
family
gathering
at
Christmas.
What
does
it
mean?
Why
someone
says:
‘Ah!
we
miss
poor
Uncle
James,
who
was
here
last
year,’
and
we
all
begin
to
snivel.
Someone
else
says:
‘It’s
two
years
since
poor
Aunt
Liz
used
to
sit
in
that
corner.’
Then
we
all
begin
to
snivel
again.
Then
another
gloomy
relation
says
‘Ah!
I
wonder
whose
turn
it
will
be
next?’
Then
we
all
snivel
again,
and
proceed
to
eat
and
drink
too
much;
and
they
don’t
discover
until
I
get
up
that
we
have
been
seated
thirteen
at
dinner.”
DECEMBER
20.—
Went
to
Smirksons’,
the
drapers,
in
the
Strand,
who
this
year
have
turned
out
everything
in
the
shop
and
devoted
the
whole
place
to
the
sale
of
Christmas
cards.
Shop
crowded
with
people,
who
seemed
to
take
up
the
cards
rather
roughly,
and,
after
a
hurried
glance
at
them,
throw
them
down
again.
I
remarked
to
one
of
the
young
persons
serving,
that
carelessness
appeared
to
be
a
disease
with
some
purchasers.
The
observation
was
scarcely
out
of
my
mouth,
when
my
thick
coat-sleeve
caught
against
a
large
pile
of
expensive
cards
in
boxes
one
on
top
of
the
other,
and
threw
them
down.
The
manager
came
forward,
looking
very
much
annoyed,
and
picking
up
several
cards
from
the
ground,
said
to
one
of
the
assistants,
with
a
palpable
side-glance
at
me:
“Put
these
amongst
the
sixpenny
goods;
they
can’t
be
sold
for
a
shilling
now.”
The
result
was,
I
felt
it
my
duty
to
buy
some
of
these
damaged
cards.
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