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The other rules apply to the specie-s of the kingdom; but as for multiplication, we multiply, I fear, no species but our own!" "Fie, gentlemen!" said MacGrawler, austerely, for there is a wonderful decorum in your true Scotsmen. "Actions are trifles; nothing can be cleaner than their words!" "Oh, you thrust in your wisdom, do you?" said Ned. "I suppose you want your part of the booty!"
The pair now sat down to their repast; and Paul, who had fared but meagerly in that Temple of Athena over which MacGrawler presided, did ample justice to the viands before him.
The apprehension of the noted Lovett had become a matter of serious desire; the police was no longer to be bribed, nay, they were now eager to bribe. MacGrawler had watched his time, sold his chief, and was now on the road to Reading to meet and to guide to the cavern Mr. Nabbem of Bow Street and four of his attendants.
"And after all, though you 'as a mixture like, I does not know a halehouse where a cove is better entertained, nor meets of a Sunday more illegant company, than the Mug!" Here the conversation, which the reader must know had been sustained in a key inaudible to a third person, received a check from Mr. Peter MacGrawler, who, having finished his revery and his tankard, now rose to depart.
Nay, even in his destitution, when driven from the abode of his childhood, thou hast observed how, instead of resorting to some more pleasurable or libertine road of life, he betook himself at once to the dull roof and insipid employments of MacGrawler, and preferred honestly earning his subsistence by the sweat of his brain to recurring to any of the numerous ways of living on others with which his experience among the worst part of society must have teemed, and which, to say the least of them, are more alluring to the young and the adventurous than the barren paths of literary labour.
What if the afflicted individual himself write us word that he never was better in his life? In short, if Horace is right, we are the very princes of poets; for I dare say, Mr. MacGrawler, that you and you, too, my little gentleman, perfectly remember the words of the wise old Roman,
Botheram, putting on a pair of remarkably large spectacles, wherewith he truculently regarded the witness, "so, so, Mr. MacGrawler, is that your name, eh, eh? Ah, it is, is it? A very respectable name it is too, I warrant. Well, sir, look at me.
He narrated to him his breach with Dame Lobkins, his agreement with MacGrawler, the glory he had acquired, and the wrongs he had sustained; and he concluded, as now the second bottle made its appearance, by stating his desire of exchanging for some more active profession that sedentary career which he had so promisingly begun.
"Nay, nay," grunted MacGrawler; "I don't want the money, it is my way to scorn such dross!" So saying, he pocketed the coins, and turned, muttering to himself, to the renewal of his festive preparations. Meanwhile a whispered conversation took place between Augustus and the captain, and continued till Ned returned. "And the night's viands smoked along the board!"
Nay, even in his destitution, when driven from the abode of his childhood, thou hast observed how, instead of resorting to some more pleasurable or libertine road of life, he betook himself at once to the dull roof and insipid employments of MacGrawler, and preferred honestly earning his subsistence by the sweat of his brain to recurring to any of the numerous ways of living on others with which his experience among the worst part of society must have teemed, and which, to say the least of them, are more alluring to the young and the adventurous than the barren paths of literary labour.
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