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again today, an elderly man with dundrearies, preferring
through his nose a request to have word of Wilhelmina, my
life, as he calls her. I bade him hold himself in readiness for
that the event would burst anon. ‘Slife, I’ll be round with
you. I cannot but extol the virile potency of the old bucko
that could still knock another child out of her. All fell to
praising of it, each after his own fashion, though the same
young blade held with his former view that another than
her conjugial had been the man in the gap, a clerk in orders,
a linkboy (virtuous) or an itinerant vendor of articles need-
ed in every household. Singular, communed the guest with
himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsycho-
sis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the
dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity,
that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice
to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into
exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise
eminent have esteemed the noblest. But, he further added,
it is mayhap to relieve the pentup feelings that in common
oppress them for I have more than once observed that birds
of a feather laugh together.
But with what fitness, let it be asked of the noble lord, his
patron, has this alien, whom the concession of a gracious
prince has admitted to civic rights, constituted himself the
lord paramount of our internal polity? Where is now that
gratitude which loyalty should have counselled? During the
recent war whenever the enemy had a temporary advantage
with his granados did this traitor to his kind not seize that
moment to discharge his piece against the empire of which