in the kitching, I can tell you; and the consequints was, that we
were better served, and moar liked, than many pipple with twice our
merit.

Deuceace had some particklar plans, no doubt, which kep him so long
at Balong; and it clearly was his wish to act the man of fortune
there for a little time before he tried the character of Paris. He
purchased a carridge, he hired a currier, he rigged me in a fine
new livry blazin with lace, and he past through the Balong bank a
thousand pounds of the money he had won from Dawkins, to his credit
at a Paris house; showing the Balong bankers at the same time, that
he'd plenty moar in his potfolie. This was killin two birds with
one stone; the bankers' clerks spread the nuse over the town, and
in a day after master had paid the money every old dowyger in
Balong had looked out the Crabs' family podigree in the Peeridge,
and was quite intimate with the Deuceace name and estates. If
Sattn himself were a lord, I do beleave there's many vurtuous
English mothers would be glad to have him for a son-in-law.

Now, though my master had thought fitt to leave town without
excommunicating with his father on the subject of his intended
continental tripe, as soon as he was settled at Balong he roat my
Lord Crabbs a letter, of which I happen to have a copy. It ran
thus:--


"BOULOGNE, January 25.

"MY DEAR FATHER,--I have long, in the course of my legal studies,
found the necessity of a knowledge of French, in which language all