aid he, addressing the two members,
"is so and so, the author of so and so, the well-known philologist; as I
was telling you, I spoke to Lord A--- this day about him, and said that
he ought forthwith to have the head appointment in--and what did the
fellow say? Why, that there was no necessity for such an appointment at
all, and if there were, why--and then he hummed and ha'd. Yes," said he,
looking at the writer, "he did indeed. What a scandal! what an infamy!
But I see how it will be, it will be a job. The place will be given to
some son of a steward or to some quack, as I said before. Oh, these
Tories! Well, if this does not make one--" Here he stopped short,
crunched his teeth, and looked the image of desperation.

Seeing the poor man in this distressed condition, the writer begged him
to be comforted, and not to take the matter so much to heart; but the
indignant Radical took the matter very much to heart, and refused all
comfort whatever, bouncing about the room, and, whilst his spectacles
flashed in the light of four spermaceti candles, exclaiming, "It will be
a job--a Tory job! I see it all, I see it all, I see it all!"

And a job it proved, and a very pretty job, but no Tory job. Shortly
afterwards the Tories were out, and the Whigs were in. From that time
the writer heard not a word about the injustice done to the country in
not presenting him with the appointment to ---; the Radical, however, was
busy enough to obtain the appointment, not for the writer, but for
himself, and eventually succeeded, partly through Radical influence, and
partly through that of a certain Whig lord, for whom the Radical had
done, on a particular occasion, work of a particular kind. So, though
the place was given to a quack, and the whole affair a very pretty job,
it was one in which the Tories had certainly no hand.

In the meanwhile, however, the friendly Radical did not drop the writer.
Oh, no! On various occasions he obtained from the writer all the
information about the country in question, and was particularly anxious
to obtain from the writer, and eventually did obtain, a copy of a work
written in the court language of that country, edited by the writer, a
language exceedingly difficult, which the writer, at the expense of a
considerable portion of his eyesight, had acquired, at least as far as by
the eyesight it could be acquired. What use the writer's friend made of
the knowledge he had gained from him, and wh