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 whatsoever, 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 he could about the country in question, and was particularly
anxious to obtain from the writer, and eventually did obtain, a copy of a
work {376c} 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 what use he made
of the book, the writer can only guess; but he has little doubt that when
the question of sending a person to --- was mooted in a Parliamentary
Committee--which it was at the instigation of the Radical supporters of
the writer's friend--the Radical, on being examined about the country,
gave the information which he had obtained from the writer as his own,
and flashed the book and its singular characters in