anywise concerned
him ever did.

'Clever fellow, Doctor Sturk,' said the silver spectacles, looking
grimly at the float. 'I like him. You remember him, you say, Irons?'

'Ay, Sir,' said Blue-chin: 'I never forget a face.' 'Par nobile,'
sneered the angler quietly.' In the year '45, eh--go on.'

'Ay, Sir; he slept in the "Pied Horse," at Newmarket, and was in all the
fun. Next day he broke his arm badly, and slept there in the closet off
Mr. Beauclerc's room that night under laudanum, and remained ten days
longer in the house. Mr. Beauclerc's chamber was the "flower de luce."
Barnabus Sturk, Esq. When I saw him here, half the length of the street
away, I knew him and his name on the instant. I never forget things.'

'But he don't remember you?'

'No,' smiled Blue-chin, looking at the float also.

'Two-and-twenty-years. How came it he was not summoned?'

'He was under laudanum, and could tell nothing.'

'Ay,' said the spectacles, 'ay,' and he let out some more line. 'That's
deep.'

'Yes, Sir, a soldier was drownded in that hole.'

'And Dr. Toole and Mr. Nutter don't love him--both brisk fellows, and
have fought.'

Blue-chin smiled on.

'Very clever dog--needs be sharp though, or he'll come to--ha!' and a
gray trout came splashing and flickering along the top of the water upon
the hook, and Irons placed the net in Dangerfield's outstretched hand,
and the troutling was landed, to the distant music of 'God save the
King,' borne faintly on the air, by which the reader perceives that the
band were now about to put up their instruments, and the gay folk to
disperse. And at the same moment, Lord Castlemallard was doing old
General Chattesworth the honour to lean upon his arm, as they walked to
and fro upon the parade-ground by the river's bank, and the general
looked particularly grand and thoughtful, and my lord was more than
usually gracious and impressive, and was saying:--

''Tis a good match every way: he has good blood in his veins, Sir, the
Dangerfields of Redminster; and you may suppose he's rich, when he was
ready to advance Sir Sedley Hicks thirty-five thousand pounds on
mortgage, and to my certain knowledge has nearly as much more out on
good securities; and he's the most principled man I think I ever met
with, and the cleverest dog, I believe, in these kingdoms; and I wish
you joy, General Chattesworth.'

And he gave the general snuff out of his box, and shook hands, and said
something very good, as