out at
this outrayjus ideer.

"'She WILL be, my dear sir. You have already pleased her,--your
admirable manners must succeed in captivating her, and a fond father's
wishes will be crowned on the day in which you enter our family.'

"'Recklect, gents,' says I to the 2 lords,--'a barging's a barging--I'll
pay hoff Southdown's Jews, when I'm his brother. As a STRAYNGER'--(this
I said in a sarcastickle toan)--'I wouldn't take such a LIBBATY. When
I'm your suninlor I'll treble the valyou of your estayt. I'll make your
incumbrinces as right as a trivit, and restor the ouse of Bareacres to
its herly splender. But a pig in a poak is not the way of transacting
bisniss imployed by Jeames De la Pluche, Esquire.'

"And I had a right to speak in this way. I was one of the greatest
scrip-holders in Hengland; and calclated on a kilossle fortune. All my
shares was rising immence. Every poast brot me noose that I was sevral
thowsands richer than the day befor. I was detummind not to reerlize
till the proper time, and then to buy istates; to found a new family of
Delapluches, and to alie myself with the aristoxy of my country.

"These pints I reprasented to pore Mary Hann hover and hover agin. 'If
you'd been Lady Hangelina, my dear gal,' says I, 'I would have married
you: and why don't I? Because my dooty prewents me. I'm a marter to
dooty; and you, my pore gal, must cumsole yorself with that ideer.'

"There seemed to be a consperracy, too, between that Silvertop and Lady
Hangelina to drive me to the same pint. 'What a plucky fellow you were,
Pluche,' says he (he was rayther more familiar than I liked), 'in
your fight with Fitzwarren--to engage a man of twice your strength
and science, though you were sure to be beaten' (this is an etroashous
folsood: I should have finnisht Fitz in 10 minnits), 'for the sake of
poor Mary Hann! That's a generous fellow. I like to see a man risen to
eminence like you, having his heart in the right place. When is to be
the marriage, my boy?'

"'Capting S.' says I, 'my marridge consunns your most umble servnt a
precious sight more than you;'--and I gev him to understand I didn't
want him to put in HIS ore--I wasn't afrayd of his whiskers, I prommis
you, Capting as he was. I'm a British Lion, I am as brayv as Bonypert,
Hannible, or Holiver Crummle, and would face bagnits as well as any Evy
drigoon of 'em all.

"Lady Hangelina, too, igspawstulated in her hartfl way. 'Mr. De la
Pluche (seshee), why, wh