"Well, of course as you say so, he must have made a mistake; but Caen is as open to you as to him, and there's no harm in the place; and he knows you by appearance."

"He knows everybody by appearance, it seems, and nobody knows him; and, by Jove, he describes more like a bailiff than a Guardsman."

"He's a thorough gentleman in every idea. Tom Blackmore is as nice a little fellow as there is in the world," battled Tom Sedley for his friend.

"Well, I wish you'd persuade that faultless gentleman to let me and my concerns alone. I have a reason in this case; and I don't mind if I tell you I was at Caen, and I suppose he did see me. But there was no romance in the matter, except the romance of the Stock Exchange and a Jew; and I wish, Tom, you'd just consider me as much as you do the old baronet, for my own sake, that is, for I'm pretty well dipped too, and don't want everyone to know when or where I go in quest of my Jews. I was—not very far from that about four months ago; and if you go about telling everyone, by Jove my uncle will guess what brought me there, and old fellows don't like post-obits on their own lives."

"My dear Cleve, I had not a notion——"

"Well, all you can do for me now, having spread the report, is to say that I wasn't there—I'm serious. Here we are."

END OF VOL. II.

BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

Transcriber's Note

Punctuation errors have been corrected.

The following suspected printer's errors have been addressed.

Page 25: A word fragment 'stea' was removed as it seemed to be unecessary and out of context. ("I'm startled sir." stea)

Page 79: Rumbble changed to Rumble. (are they Mrs Rumble—eh?)

Page 90: aud changed to and. (and with a pen in his fingers)

Page 139: and changed to an. (an old château)

Page 151: sear changed to sere. (no bloom restores the sere)

Page 184: Iv'e changed to I've. (I've had a word of trouble)

Page 206: dog-skin changed to doe-skin. (her thin hand, in doe-skin glove)