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You will starve to death with considerable rapidity." "My dear Mr. Yorke," said Byam Ryll, approvingly, "you have won my heart, though I can't afford to let you win my sovereigns; I like you, but I must kill you off, I see." "Unless " said Yorke.
"Ah, you are referring to that foolish talk about the living last night. Poor Ryll is quite broken-hearted about it this morning; and, in fact, he did do me an ill turn, though, I am sure, without intending it. It is the misfortune of a professed wit and especially of a poor one that he can not afford to be silent." "You take it more good-humoredly than I should," said Yorke.
On the other hand, Byam Ryll was gifted with even rarer qualities; he was essentially a man of mark and character, and might have made his fortune in any pursuit by his own wits; but his fortune had been ready-made when he came of age, and he had occupied himself very agreeably instead in getting through it, in which he had quite succeeded.
Chandos, is Ryll, and not Byam except to his intimate friends," interposed the chaplain; "and the name you are in want of is competitive." "That's it," said the young man, slapping the table, and forgetting both his mistake and his anger in the unaccustomed acquisition of an idea.
Nor would Mr. Byam Ryll have been considered by every body to earn an easy livelihood in making jests out of every occasion, to tickle the fancy of a dull-witted audience and of a patron, as often as not, morose; yet the flesh-pots of Egypt had attracted both these men to the Squire's service, their poverty as well as their will consenting; and in exchange for meat and drink, and lodging of the best, they had sold themselves into slavery.
Well, 'India be it, says Jack; 'that's as good a place as another; though, in my opinion, he never expected to go there. He thought he had no chance whatever of pulling through, and so did I, for the fact is, Jack is a born fool." "Did you say he was your brother, or only your half-brother?" inquired Mr. Byam Ryll, with an appearance of great interest.
Byam Ryll; "and the whole circumstances of the case will, I have no doubt, be interesting in the highest degree to the natives of Bengal. Your brother should embody them in a neat speech, and deliver it from the deck of the steamer before he lands." It is probable that Mr.
Byam Ryll, who sat on the other side of him, "if, at least, I have not forgotten my Burns." "I always understood that Burns had very loose views upon such matters," returned the chaplain, demurely. "My dear parson, your remark is like that excellent condiment which I wish I could see at this otherwise well-provided table caviare to the multitude. Why is it not furnished?
None but a first-rate player could have held his own among that company, whose intelligence had been directed to this particular pursuit for most of their natural lives; and even "Tub Ryll," as they called him, had to supplement his dexterity by other means to make success secure.
And nobody knew better than poor Parson Whymper that this verdict would be more final than that of most other ecclesiastical synods, and that he had lost his preferment. Byam Ryll felt a genuine regret that he had pushed matters so far, though Whymper himself was to blame for having shown temper, and thereby precipitated the catastrophe.
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