"Why! to be sure," answered Mr. Prim, who seemed to be the orator of the group, " you speak like a gentleman, Mr. Aubrey ; and you can't wonder that, in these times, men in business should look about them: but, as I said before, a fortnight's no time; so, for my part, seeing you promise so fairly, I will manage to make up my money some other way." --"I have no objections," said Mr Pruin the grocer, "to following Mr. Prim's example; for I knows Mr. Prim to be a prudent man: but I must say that, though I thinks Mr. Aubrey is one of the most well-spoken gentlemen I know , it is going too far to our faces to tell us, that if he should not pay us, he would be the most injured and unhappy person."

Simon married her, to use his own phrase, out of hand : but the marriage was only the beginning of new troubles.

The fellow was an Irishman; and in the true style of his country, he delivered his story.
"As it was of no consiquince at all, at all, what diriction we tuck , your Honours," began the servant, " purvided we tuck the right one, the min that was widh us, and myself, sit off jig by jowl togidther in a body and wint diffirint ways acrass the country. I wint alone by mysilf with Lloyd, your Honour's tinant , as clane a young fellow as there's in the country saving your prifrance , let the t'other be who he may; so, as I was saying, off we wint , and niver cracked cry, till we found ourselves, more by chance nor good look , by the say-side , at a place they calls Pimbrook, I thinks , a great wide, barrin spot, for all the world, your Honours, like the bog of Allin, in my place there beyant . Sweet little Ireland! Musha , the Lord prospir it!"

The obsequious foreigner in an instant made his appearance; his principal merit and utility were speaking the French language and broken English so as scarcely to be understood.
[some narrative omitted]
The following dialogue commenced between the master and his valet.
The honourable Mr. Pellet. Facile, are there any letters for me?"
Facile. "Oui, Monsieur, (with the lowest bow, giving the right honourable Mr. Pellet a letter) the honourable Monsieur Thomas Vortex has sent dis note for you."
[some narrative omitted]
Facile. "There have beside called on you, Monsieur (bowing) de tailleur, two jockies un marchand, qui vend du vin , Monsieur Soleil, un jeweller, Monsieur Did**ot, un opera dancer, Monsieur Issachar, the great broker, qui est ver rich."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "Very well, my good Facile. Honest Issachar is a d.....d good sort of fellow. He is the lily."
Facile. "Ah, mon Dieu! mais Monsieur , (emphatically shrugging up his shoulders) mais Monsieur (smiling, and putting his hand to his breast) une demoiselle charmante, tres belle , com this evening, she says dat she love you, that she, en verite , adore you, enfin elle dit que vous etes barbare, ingrat , and dat she will be ver inconsolable."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "Adorable creature! but if I hear a tittle of French from you, I'll break every bone in your skin."
Facile. "Maamselle look ver pretty, Sar ."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "You French devil, fetch my masquerade dress."
Facile. "Ah vous etes toujours gai, Monsieur, toujours plaisant, just like one Frenchman exactement ."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "None of your jabbering, Sir, depechez vous and be d.....d."
Facile. "I fly en verite , Sar , I fly, (scraping very low on the ground, and hobbling out of the room) ma foi! peste! le diable (muttering to himself) dis corn does plaguy me so, I must pay one visit to M. Gardiner, who has cured de Duchess of Rigadoon's pieds ."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "What is that you say, you old fool?" (shoving him violently out of the room.)
Facile. (returns and makes a low bow) "I have de honour of having received one big push from you, Sar . I am ver oblige, Sar , ver , ver much oblige indeed."

The obsequious foreigner in an instant made his appearance; his principal merit and utility were speaking the French language and broken English so as scarcely to be understood.
[some narrative omitted]
The following dialogue commenced between the master and his valet.
The honourable Mr. Pellet. Facile, are there any letters for me?"
Facile. "Oui, Monsieur, (with the lowest bow, giving the right honourable Mr. Pellet a letter) the honourable Monsieur Thomas Vortex has sent dis note for you."
[some narrative omitted]
Facile. "There have beside called on you, Monsieur (bowing) de tailleur, two jockies un marchand, qui vend du vin , Monsieur Soleil, un jeweller, Monsieur Did**ot, un opera dancer, Monsieur Issachar, the great broker, qui est ver rich."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "Very well, my good Facile. Honest Issachar is a d.....d good sort of fellow. He is the lily."
Facile. "Ah, mon Dieu! mais Monsieur , (emphatically shrugging up his shoulders) mais Monsieur (smiling, and putting his hand to his breast) une demoiselle charmante, tres belle , com this evening, she says dat she love you, that she, en verite , adore you, enfin elle dit que vous etes barbare, ingrat , and dat she will be ver inconsolable."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "Adorable creature! but if I hear a tittle of French from you, I'll break every bone in your skin."
Facile. "Maamselle look ver pretty, Sar ."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "You French devil, fetch my masquerade dress."
Facile. "Ah vous etes toujours gai, Monsieur, toujours plaisant, just like one Frenchman exactement ."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "None of your jabbering, Sir, depechez vous and be d.....d."
Facile. "I fly en verite , Sar , I fly, (scraping very low on the ground, and hobbling out of the room) ma foi! peste! le diable (muttering to himself) dis corn does plaguy me so, I must pay one visit to M. Gardiner, who has cured de Duchess of Rigadoon's pieds ."
The honourable Mr. Pellet. "What is that you say, you old fool?" (shoving him violently out of the room.)
Facile. (returns and makes a low bow) "I have de honour of having received one big push from you, Sar . I am ver oblige, Sar , ver , ver much oblige indeed."

"Greater fools than I first thought them," said John; "for my part, I would never fight about a female, who changes her mind as often as the weathercock points different ways."
" Ah, John," said Nanny smartly, "you forget the time when you and Tummus , our coachman, had stripped to fight about me, because I know who was jealous. Don't you recollect, John, when I came between you, and parted you; and yet it was a duced hard matter to make you put your clothes on and sit quiet , John, you know it was; and who, pray, was the fool then? Don't I recollect, Tummus telling you that your forks were so dirty, that a man might ride to Rumford on them, and that you were always the fiddle of the company?"
"No matter of that, " said John; "why don't they fight with fistes ? a bloody nose, or a blow in the bread-basket , is all they would get then; but here, dang it , Nanny, the very thoughts of it makes one's blood run cold: gemmen , who ought to know better, as having larning , will fight with barking irons or cold steel . Curse those barking irons , I cannot bear them; they suit thieves or pirates, but gemmen to fight with barking irons as they do, Nanny, is heathenish

"Greater fools than I first thought them," said John; "for my part, I would never fight about a female, who changes her mind as often as the weathercock points different ways."
" Ah, John," said Nanny smartly, "you forget the time when you and Tummus , our coachman, had stripped to fight about me, because I know who was jealous. Don't you recollect, John, when I came between you, and parted you; and yet it was a duced hard matter to make you put your clothes on and sit quiet , John, you know it was; and who, pray, was the fool then? Don't I recollect, Tummus telling you that your forks were so dirty, that a man might ride to Rumford on them, and that you were always the fiddle of the company?"
"No matter of that, " said John; "why don't they fight with fistes ? a bloody nose, or a blow in the bread-basket , is all they would get then; but here, dang it , Nanny, the very thoughts of it makes one's blood run cold: gemmen , who ought to know better, as having larning , will fight with barking irons or cold steel . Curse those barking irons , I cannot bear them; they suit thieves or pirates, but gemmen to fight with barking irons as they do, Nanny, is heathenish

" Why as to the matter of that," answered the betteer looking of the two, though a regard to truth compels me to say that both of them wore the appearance of felons rather than officers who served his Majesty's court, "I am good-natured enough when there's a bit coming forward , but provisions, as my fellow officer Dick says, are so dear now a-days, that let a man be ever so industrious, I defies him to get an honest living, and pay every man his due. For my part, I pays as I goes , and therefore I can't , in justice, do you see, Miss Tankerville, afford to lose. Times are main ticklish , as brother Dick says; but, howsomever, tho' I can't take your bail, I would go a mile to oblige you, Miss. You are such a handsome, fine young lady, and withal look so good humoured."