en I say that Mr. Deuceace was a barrystir, I don't mean that he
went sesshums or surcoats (as they call 'em), but simply that he kep
chambers, lived in Pump Cort, and looked out for a commitionarship, or
a revisinship, or any other place that the Wig guvvyment could give
him. His father was a Wig pier (as the landriss told me), and had been
a Toary pier. The fack is, his lordship was so poar, that he would be
anythink or nothink, to get provisions for his sons and an inkum for
himself.

I phansy that he aloud Halgernon two hundred a year; and it would have
been a very comforable maintenants, only he knever paid him.

Owever, the young genlmn was a genlmn, and no mistake; he got his
allowents of nothing a year, and spent it in the most honrabble and
fashnabble manner. He kep a kab---he went to Holmax--and Crockfud's--he
moved in the most xquizzit suckles and trubbld the law boox very little,
I can tell you. Those fashnabble gents have ways of getten money, witch
comman pipple doan't understand.

Though he only had a therd floar in Pump Cort, he lived as if he had
the welth of Cresas. The tenpun notes floo abowt as common as
haypince--clarrit and shampang was at his house as vulgar as gin; and
verry glad I was, to be sure, to be a valley to a zion of the nobillaty.

Deuceace had, in his sittin-room, a large pictur on a sheet of paper.
The names of his family was wrote on it; it was wrote in the shape of
a tree, a-groin out of a man-in-armer's stomick, and the names were on
little plates among the bows. The pictur said that the Deuceaces kem
into England in the year 1066, along with William Conqueruns. My master
called it his podygree. I do bleev it was because he had this pictur,
and because he was the HONRABBLE Deuceace, that he mannitched to live
as he did. If he had been a common man, you'd have said he was no
better than a swinler. It's only rank and buth that can warrant such
singularities as my master show'd. For it's no use disgysing it--the
Honrabble Halgernon was a GAMBLER. For a man of wulgar family, it's the
wust trade that can be--for a man of common feelinx of honesty, this
profession is quite imposbil; but for a real thoroughbread genlmn, it's
the esiest and most prophetable line he can take.

It may praps appear curious that such a fashnabble man should live in
the Temple; but it must be recklected, that it's not only lawyers who
live in what's called the Ins of Cort. Many batchylers, who have nothink