Mr. Deuceace at Paris by William Makepeace Thackeray

Lieutenant-General Sir George Griffin, K. C. B., was about seventy-five / years old when he left this life, and the East Ingine army, of which he / was a distinguished ornyment. Sir George's first appearance in Injar was / in the character of a cabbingboy to a vessel; from which he rose to be / clerk to the owners at Calcutta, from which he became all of a sudden a / capting in the Company's service; and so rose and rose, until he rose to / be a leftenant-general, when he stopped rising altogether -- hopping the / twig of this life, as drummers, generals, dustmen, and emperors must do.

Sir George did not leave any mal hair to perpetuate the name of Griffin. / A widow of about twenty-seven, and a daughter avaritching twenty-three, / was left behind to deploar his loss, and share his proppaty. On old Sir / George's deth, his interesting widdo and orfan, who had both been with / him in Injer, returned home -- tried London for a few months, did not / like it, and resolved on a trip to Paris; where very small London people / become very great ones, if they've money, as these Griffinses had. / The intelligent reader need not be told that Miss Griffin was not the / daughter of Lady Griffin; for though marritches are made tolrabbly early / in Injer, people are not quite so precoashoos as all that: the fact is, / Lady G. was Sir George's second wife. I need scarcely add, that Miss / Matilda Griffin wos the offspring of his fust marritch.