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"Give me half," he said, "and let me go. When he had marched forwards for a street or two, Gambouge counted the money which he had received, and found that he was in possession of no less than a hundred francs. It was night, as he reckoned out his equivocal gains, and he counted them at the light of a lamp.
Let me dig or steal, let me sell myself as a soldier, or sell myself to the Devil, I should not be more wretched than I am now!" "Quite the contrary," cried a small, cheery voice. "What!" exclaimed Gambouge, trembling and surprised. "Who's there? where are you? who are you?" "You were just speaking of me," said the voice.
She had sat to the painter for all sorts of characters; and the curious who possess any of Gambouge's pictures will see her as Venus, Minerva, Madonna, and in numberless other characters: Portrait of a lady Griskinissa; Sleeping Nymph Griskinissa, without a rag of clothes, lying in a forest; Maternal Solicitude Griskinissa again, with young Master Gambouge, who was by this time the offspring of their affections.
I WISH” and here Simon whistled, and turned round to see that no one was peeping “I wish the plate were mine.” Oh, the horrid progress of the Devil! “Here they are,” thought Simon to himself; “why should not I take them?” and take them he did. “Detection,” said he, “is not so bad as starvation; and I would as soon live at the galleys as live with Madame Gambouge.”
Griskinissa such was the fair creature’s name “was as lovely a bit of mutton,” her father said, “as ever a man would wish to stick a knife into.” She had sat to the painter for all sorts of characters; and the curious who possess any of Gambouge’s pictures will see her as Venus, Minerva, Madonna, and in numberless other characters: Portrait of a lady Griskinissa; Sleeping Nymph Griskinissa, without a rag of clothes, lying in a forest; Maternal Solicitude Griskinissa again, with young Master Gambouge, who was by this time the offspring of their affections.
Simon now returned home, and, to do him justice, paid the bill for his dinner, and restored the plate. He was a most exemplary father. He fed the poor, and was loved by them. He scorned a base action. And I have no doubt that Mr. Thurtell, or the late lamented Mr. Greenacre, in similar circumstances, would have acted like the worthy Simon Gambouge.
You know I must go soon, and I am anxious, before this noble company, to make a provision for one who, in sickness as in health, in poverty as in riches, has been my truest and fondest companion." Gambouge mopped his eyes with his handkerchief all the company did likewise. Diabolus sobbed audibly, and Mrs. Gambouge sidled up to her husband's side, and took him tenderly by the hand.
He was to have all he wished for seven years, and at the end of that time was to become the property of the ; =provided= that during the course of the seven years, every single wish which he might form should be gratified by the other of the contracting parties; otherwise the deed became null and nonavenue, and Gambouge should be left “to go to the his own way.”
Nothing remained to corroborate his story, except the bladder of lake, and this was spirted all over his waistcoat and breeches. "I wish," said the poor fellow, rubbing his tingling cheeks, "that dreams were true;" and he went to work again at his portrait. My last accounts of Gambouge are, that he has left the arts, and is footman in a small family. Mrs.
Have I it not in my pocket? Art thou not a convicted dealer in stolen goods? Yield, scoundrel, yield thy money, or I will bring thee to justice!” The frightened pawnbroker bullied and battled for a while; but he gave up his money at last, and the dispute ended. Thus it will be seen that Diabolus had rather a hard bargain in the wily Gambouge.
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