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After this exordium, which was pronounced to be unique for its simplicity and truth, he entered at once on the history of his own recent adventures. First alluding to the admirable character of that Leaphigh usage which prescribes the Journey of Trial, our philosopher spoke of the manner in which he had been selected to accompany my lord Chatterino on an occasion so important to his future hopes.
To own the truth, while striving to find apologies for it, I had been a little contraire, as the French term it, by the indifference of my Lord Chatterino, which, in my secret heart, I was not slow in attributing to the manner in which a peer of the realm of Leaphigh regarded, de haut en bas, a mere baronet of Great Britain or Great Breeches, as the young noble so pertinaciously insisted on terming our illustrious island.
In a good many instances the journey is actually performed by proxy But the case of my Lord Chatterino and my Lady Chatterissa formed an exception even to these exceptions. Dr.
I was wealthy beyond bounds, and the equipment of a proper vessel would be an expenditure of no moment; both the Doctor and Lord Chatterino were good practical geographers, after they were once within the parallel of 77 degrees south, and Captain Poke, according to his own account of himself, had passed half his life in poking about among the sterile and uninhabited islands of the frozen ocean.
"This, certainly, is a great improvement, unless frequent failures " "Not at all; there has not been a bankruptcy in Leaphigh since the law was passed making promises a legal tender." "I wonder no chancellor of the exchequer ever thought of this, at home!" "So much for your Great Breeches, Chatterino!" And then there was another and a very general laugh.
The philosopher withdrew a moment with my Lord Chatterino, to consult whether it would be prudent to admit of the validity of protocol No. 1, even in this indirect manner; whereupon it was decided between them, that, as such admission would lay open all the vexatious questions that had just been so happily disposed of, clause 1 of article 5 having a direct connection with clause 2; clauses 1 and 2 forming the whole article; and the said article 5, in its entirety, forming an integral portion of the whole instrument; and the doctrine of constructions, enjoining that instruments are to be construed like wills, by their general, and not by their especial tendencies, it would be dangerous to the objects of the interview to allow the application to be granted.
Lord Chatterino: Birth; sixteen descents pure; one bastardy four descents pure a suspicion one descent pure a certainty. Lady Chatterissa: Birth; six descents pure three bastardies eleven descents pure a certainty a suspicion unknown.
Lord Chatterino good-naturedly exclaimed, "the inhabitants of Great Breeches carry their brains in their heads." "Their heads!" "Heads!" "That's excellent, by his majesty's prerogative! Here's civilization, with a vengeance!" I now thought that the general ridicule would overwhelm me. Two or three came closer, as if in pity or curiosity; and, at last, one cried out that I actually wore clothes.
Captain Poke was soon ready, and I must say that he looked more like a quadruped on its hind legs, in his new attire, than a human being. As for my own appearance, I trust it was such as became my station and character. At the appointed time all the parties were assembled, Lord Chatterino appearing with a copy of the protocol in his hand.
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