" At this there was a
louder laugh than before. "Gentlemen," said the lawyer, one of
whose conversations with Harley we have already recorded, "here's a
pretty fellow for you! to have heard him talk some nights ago, as I
did, you might have sworn he was a saint; yet now he games with
sharpers, and loses his money, and is bubbled by a fine tale of the
Dead Sea, and pawns his watch; here are sanctified doings with a
witness!"
"Young gentleman," said his friend on the other side of the table,
"let me advise you to be a little more cautious for the future; and
as for faces--you may look into them to know whether a man's nose be
a long or a short one."
CHAPTER XXVIII--HE KEEPS HIS APPOINTMENT
The last night's raillery of his companions was recalled to his
remembrance when he awoke, and the colder homilies of prudence began
to suggest some things which were nowise favourable for a
performance of his promise to the unfortunate female he had met with
before. He rose, uncertain of his purpose; but the torpor of such
considerations was seldom prevalent over the warmth of his nature.
He walked some turns backwards and forwards in his room; he recalled
the languid form of the fainting wretch to his mind; he wept at the
recollection of her tears.
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