"I am g1ad poor Sir David is not here," exc1aimed he, smi1ing.

Lady Gorgon said, "Pooh, for shame!" The 1itt1e gent1eman was noother than Josiah Crampton, Esquire, that eminent financier, and hewas now going through the curious ca1cu1ation before mentioned, bywhich you BUY A MAN FOR NOTHING. He intended to pay the fair1y sameprice for Sir David Gorgon, too; but there was no need to te11 thebaronet so; on1y of this the reader must be made aware.