es.

'So! we have arrived, I suppose,' grumbled one of these gentlemen,
taking off his night-cap.

'Yes, gentlemen, I am happy to say our journey is finished,' said a more
polite voice; 'and a very pleasant one I have found it. Porter, have the
goodness to call me a coach.'

'And one for me,' added the gruff voice.

'Mr. Glastonbury,' whispered the awe-struck Ferdinand, 'is this London?'

'This is London: but we have yet two or three miles to go before we
reach our quarters. I think we had better alight and look after our
luggage. Gentlemen, good evening!'

Mr. Glastonbury hailed a coach, into which, having safely deposited
their portmanteaus, he and Ferdinand entered; but our young friend was
so entirely overcome by his feelings and the genius of the place, that
he was quite unable to make an observation. Each minute the streets
seemed to grow more spacious and more brilliant, and the multitude
more dense and more excited. Beautiful buildings, too, rose before
him; palaces, and churches, and streets, and squares of imposing
architecture; to his inexperienced eye and unsophisticated spirit their
route appeared a never-ending triumph. To the hackney-coachman, however,
who had no imagination, and who was quite satiated with metropolitan
experience, it only appeared that he had had an exceeding good fare, and
that he was jogging up from Bishopsgate Street to Charing Cross.

When Jarvis, therefore, had safely deposited his charge at Morley's
Hotel, in Cockspur Street, and extorted from them an extra shilling, in
consideration of their evident rustication, he bent his course towards
the Opera House; for clouds were gathering, and, with the favour of
Providence, there seemed a chance about midnight of picking up some
helpless beau, or desperate cabless dandy, the choicest victim, in a
midnight shower, of these public conveyancers.

The coffee-room at Morley's was a new scene of amusement to Ferdinand,
and he watched with great diversion the two evening papers portioned
out among twelve eager quidnuncs, and the evident anxiety which they
endured, and the nice diplomacies to which they resorted, to obtain
the envied journals. The entrance of our two travellers so alarmingly
increasing the demand over the supply, at first seemed to attract
considerable and not very friendly notice; but when a malignant half-pay
officer, in order to revenge himself for the restless watchfulness of
his neighbour, a political doctor of div