Volume V Part 47 (2/2)
”Yes, there is nothing so ineradicable as national prejudice You lishman wants to ease his sluices in the street, he doesn't run up an alley or turn to the wall like we do”
”Yes, I have noticed the towards the middle of the street, but if they thus escape the notice of the people in the shops and on the pavee, and that is as bad”
”The people in the carriages need not look”
”That is true”
We walked on to the Green Park, and met Lord Pembroke on horseback He stopped and burst into exclauessed the cause of his surprise, I hastened to tell him that I was a free man once more, to my sorrow, and felt lonely amidst my splendour
”I feel rather curious about it, and perhaps I may come and keep you co him at dinner I, went back to tell e rooement and could not come to dinner, but he led me out of the park by a door hich I was not acquainted, and senta crowd of people who see Martinelli went up to the crowd, and then returned to ht for you; you can enter it alish manners”
”What is it?”
”A man at the point of death fro with another sturdy fellow”
”Cannot anything be done?”
”There is a surgeon there ould bleed him, if he were allowed”
”Who could prevent him?”
”That's the curious part of it Two men have betted on his death or recovery One says, 'I'll bet twenty guineas he dies,' and the other says, 'Done' Nueon to bleed hione”
”Poor lish are very strange in their betting proclivities; they bet about everything There is a Betting Club to which I will introduce you, if you like”
”Do they speak French there?”
”Most certainly, for it is composed of men of wit and ue, and if one s forward a proposition which another denies, and one backs his opinion, the other has to bet too, on pain of a fine which goes to the cohtful club, by all means; it will ht side”
”You had better be careful; they are wary birds”
”But to return to the dying onist?”