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What between the field and college, young Puffington made the acquaintance of several very dashing young sparks Lord Firebrand, Lord Mudlark, Lord Deuceace, Sir Harry Blueun, and others, whom he always spoke of as 'Deuceace, 'Blueun, etc., in the easy style that marks the perfect gentleman. How proud the old people were of him!
"What a blessing it is for us all," says he, "that Algernon has found a friend so respectable as your ladyship." "Indeed, my lord; and why? I suppose I am not the only respectable friend that Mr. Deuceace has?" "No, surely; not the only one he HAS HAD: his birth, and, permit me to say, his relationship to myself, have procured him many.
Tarquin and Deuceace get what money they like out of him. He'd go to the deuce to be seen with a lord. He pays their dinners at Greenwich, and they invite the company." "And very pretty company too, I dare say." "Quite right, Miss Sharp. Right, as usual, Miss Sharp. Uncommon pretty company haw, haw!" and the Captain laughed more and more, thinking he had made a good joke.
"Je les prendrai pour cent mille douze cent francs, et j'espere, my lor, de vous revoir." "Good," says the greffier; "I know them to be good, and I will give my lor the difference, and make out his release." Which was done. The poar debtors gave a feeble cheer, as the great dubble iron gates swung open and clang to again, and Deuceace stept out and me after him, to breathe the fresh hair.
My lady only looked up for a moment, smiled very kindly, and down went her head among the papers agen, as busy as a B. "Lady Griffin has had letters from London," says Miss, "from nasty lawyers and people. Come here and sit by me, you naughty man you!" And down sat master. "Willingly," says he, "my dear Miss Griffin; why, I declare, it is quits a tete-a-tete." Deuceace."
After this speach, the old genlmn sunk down on the sofa, and puffed as much smoke out of his mouth as if he'd been the chimley of a steam-injian. I was pleased, I confess, with the sean, and liked to see this venrabble and virtuous old man a-nocking his son about the hed; just as Deuceace had done with Mr. Richard Blewitt, as I've before shown.
But this India naybob's will was at Calcutty, or some outlandish place; and there was no getting sight of a coppy of it. I will do Mr. Algernon Deuceace the justass to say, that he was so little musnary in his love for Lady Griffin, that he would have married her gladly, even if she had ten thousand pounds less than Miss Matilda.
Frederick Pigeon avers that it was at her house at Lausanne that he was hocussed at supper and lost eight hundred pounds to Major Loder and the Honourable Mr. Deuceace. We are bound, you see, to give some account of Becky's biography, but of this part, the less, perhaps, that is said the better. They say that, when Mrs.
Deuceace!" says she, trying to blush as hard as ever she could, "you quite surprise me! I don't know whether I ought, really, being alone, to admit a gentleman."
Deuceace here; and why, pray?" says my lady, who recklected all that his exlent pa had been saying to her. "Why, in the first place, he had left his pocket-book, and in the second, he wanted, he said, a dish of my nice tea; which he took, and stayed with me an hour, or moar."
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