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counterweighed by custom and flunkeydom. Mrs. 

 Papendiek, brought up in the air of the back- 

 stairs, has much to say on matters of concern to 

 those high-minded servants, their jealousies, their 

 stifled quarrels, their pickings, the unworthiness 

 of saving in a king's household, and such like. 

 She mentions incidentally a footman named 

 Fortnum leaving the service to set up as a grocer 

 in Piccadilly, where his name would wax into 

 renown. Another name now brought to note 

 in London was Almack's, the Earl of Bute's 

 butler, ne M'Call, a form which this canny 

 Aberdonian, in view of his countrymen's un- 

 popularity, thought well to anglify thus in 

 appealing for fashionable patronage. 



The taste for music fostered by the royal 

 family drew many professional players into the 

 neighbourhood, mostly foreigners, such as J. C. 

 Bach, son of the great composer ; Abel, the viol 

 da gamba player; and Fischer, Gainsborough's 

 son-in-law, celebrated for his performances on the 

 oboe, all of whom were well known to Mrs. 

 Papendiek as an amateur in their art. The arts 

 of design were also well represented by foreigners, 

 at a period when John Bull affected the pride 

 of being still rather stockish and shy with the 



