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I was pretty much of Strap's opinion, and, though I did not believe myself in any danger from the allurements of that sisterhood, I determined to act with great circumspection for the future, and shun all commerce of that kind, as equally prejudicial to my purse and constitution.
When he understood the particulars of Strap's attachment to me, he squeezed his hand very cordially, and promised to make a man of him; then, giving me ten guineas for my present occasion, took a direction for the tailor who arrested me, and went away in order to discharge the debt, telling me at parting, that he would soon fetch up all my leeway with a wet sail.
We arrived at our inn, supped, and went to bed; but Strap's distemper continuing, he was obliged to rise in the middle of the night, and taking the candle in his hand, which he had left burning for the purpose, he went down to the house of office, whence in a short time he returned in a great hurry, with his hair standing on end, and a look betokening horror and astonishment.
Margaret was allowed to visit the poor, and she accompanied her on her charitable rounds. The almost bestial squalor in which these people lived was another cruel contrast to the pampered existence led by the dogs at the castle. She had none of Strap's veneration for the epithet of gentleman. Eliza owned to a "sneaking kindness for people of quality."
Strap and I are terrified by an Apparition Strap's Conjecture the Mystery explained by Joey we arrive in London our Dress and Appearance described we are insulted in the Street an Adventure in an Alehouse we are imposed upon by a waggish Footman set to rights by a Tobacconist take Lodgings dive for a Dinner an Accident at our Ordinary
I carry my qualification to the Navy Office the nature of it the behaviour of the Secretary Strap's concern for my absence a battle betwixt him a blacksmith the troublesome consequences of it his harangue to me his friend the schoolmaster recommends me to a French Apothecary, who entertains me as a journeyman
I was partly of Strap's opinion; but the experience I had of the world made me suspend my belief till the morning, when, getting up betimes, we breakfasted with our host and his daughter on hasty-pudding and ale, and desired to know what we had to pay. "Biddy will let you know, gentlemen," said he; "for I never mind these matters.
I have known a pedlar talk in Greek and Hebrew as well as if they had been his mother-tongue. And for honesty I once had a servant, his name was Gregor Macgregor, I would have trusted him with untold gold." This eulogium of my native country gained my affections so strongly, that I believe I could have gone to death to serve the author; and Strap's eyes swam in tears.
"After all, breaking a hame strap's nothing. Bill gets extra feed for that. Anybody that can work hard enough to bust a hame strap has my approval. I never did. You see, son, it was in a way rather lucky, because I'd never have guessed what a good old nag Bill is if he hadn't proved it by snapping that strap! People most always get acquainted through accident.
I found out afterward that they had been bound behind its back. I should have said immediately, 'That's a girl in there, if it had not been for one or two plain considerations. It had not the size of what we call a girl, nor the face of what we mean by a child. It was, in fact, neither fish, flesh, nor fowl. Strap had known that from the beginning, and now I was of Strap's opinion myself."
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