don to the needy, which I lose in play to people of
fashion; and you'll allow that is giving them to the needy, and
fulfilling the worthy donor's intentions.--Ha! ha!

"_Dashall._--Then you are not here because your favourite, young
Tangent, is arrived?--Eh?

"_Lady Sorrel._--What, Dick, have you found out my attachment there?
Well, I confess it; and if my regard be not, I'll take care my
revenge shall be, gratified; and 'tis a great consolation that one is
nearly as sweet as the other."

And when the above-named cousin of Lady Sorrel has a palaver with the same
merchant Dashall, he is instructed in the inner secrets of the commercial
world after the following guise:--

"_Dashall._--Capital!--an old bugbear--never thought of now. No!
paper, discount, does it all.

"_Caustic._--Paper!

"_Dashall._--Ay. Suppose I owe a tradesman--my tailor, for
instance--two thousand pounds--

"_Caustic._--A merchant owe his tailor two thousand pounds!--Mercy on
me!

"_Dashall._--I give him my note for double the sum--he discounts
it--I touch half in the ready--note comes due--double the sum
again--touch half again--and so on to the tune of fifty thousand
pounds. If monopolies answer, make all straight; if not; smash into
the Gazette. Brother merchants say, 'D----d fine fellow; lived in
style--only traded beyond his capital.' So certificate's signed, ruin
a hundred or two reptiles of retailers, and so begin the war again.
That's the way to make a splash--devilish neat, isn't it? How you
stare! you don't know nothing of life, old boy.

"_Caustic._--Vulgar scoundrel!

"_Dashall._--We are the boys in the city. Why, there's Sweetwort the
brewer--don't you know Sweetwort? Dines an hour later than any duke
in the kingdom--imports his own turtle--dresses turbot by a stop
watch--has house-lamb fed on cream, and pigs on pine apples--gave a
jollification t'other day--stokehole in the brew-house--asked a dozen
peers--all glad to come--can't live as we do. Who make the splash in
Hyde Park?--who fill the pit at the opera?--who inhabit the squares
in the West? Why, the knowing ones from the East to be sure.

"_Caustic._--Not the wise ones from the East, I'm sure.

"_Dashall._--Who support the fashionable Faro tables? Oh, how the
duchesses chuckle and rub their h