"I left you, Harrington, and I find you, after four years' absence, intent
upon a Jew; boy and man you are one and the same; and in your case, 'tis
well that the boy and man should an individual make; but for my part, I am
glad to change my identity, like all other mortals, once in seven years;
and I hope you think I have changed for the better."

It was impossible to think otherwise, especially at that moment. In a
frank, open-hearted manner, he talked of his former tyrannical nature, and
blamed himself for our schoolboy quarrel. I was charmed with him, and the
more so, when he entered so warmly or so politely into my present distress,
and sympathized with my madness of the moment. He suggested all that was
possible to be done to supply the loss of the letter. Could not I get
another in its stead? The same friend who gave me one letter of
introduction could write another. No; Mr. Israel Lyons had left Cambridge,
and I knew not where to direct to him. Could not I present myself to Mr.
Montenero without a letter? That might be rather an awkward proceeding, but
I was not to be stopped by any nice observances, now that I had set my mind
upon the matter. Unluckily, however, I could by no means recollect the
exact address of Mr. Montenero. I was puzzled among half a dozen different
streets and numbers: Mowbray offered to walk with me, and we went to each
of these streets, and to all the variety of numbers I suggested, but in
vain; no Mr. Montenero was to be found. At last, tired and disappointed, as
I was returning home, Mowbray said he thought he could console me for the
loss of my chance of seeing my Spanish Jew, by introducing me to the most
celebrated Jew that ever appeared in England. Then turning into a street
near one of the play-houses, he knocked at the door of a house where
Macklin the actor lodged. Lord Mowbray was well acquainted with him, and I
was delighted to have an opportunity of seeing this celebrated man. He was
at this time past the meridian of ordinary life, but he was in the zenith
of his extraordinary course, and in the full splendour and vigour of his