Part 32 (1/2)

After the first heat there was a battle, tohich I was dragged by Belhts, I scarcely knehat happened; and feeling in my pocket for my handkerchief I estion Neither coolness nor recollection were present toup a red and white handkerchief, which I supposed to be ht him by the collar, and exclaimed, 'Rascal, you have robbed me!' In an instant the mob flocked round us, and the supposed pick-pocket was seized 'Duck hieneral cry; and away the poor felloas ier into which I had brought hiht of me, came up, and asked as the matter

'A fellow has picked my pocket,' said I

'Of what?'

'Of my handkerchief'

'Your handkerchief? Is it not under your hat?'

I snatched it off, examined, and there the handkerchief was!--I was struck speechless!

The man whom I had falsely accused , rending his clothes off his back, and half-tearing him in pieces The state of my mind was little short of frenzy In a tone of command, I bade Belmont follow, an to beat the people ere ill-using the prisoner; calling till I was hoarse, 'Let him alone! He is innocent! I am to blame!'

My efforts were vain A mob has many hands but no ears My bloere returned fifty fold I was inveloped by oneby another Not all et free; and the man, as Belmost afterward informed me, was half drowned; after which he escaped, and nobody kneas become of him

These were but a part of the accidents of the day My , and I was ripe forwent to the hazard table, and I detered iven, and, as if resolved on destruction, I put all my money, except a ten pound note to pay norant of the cause of them, Belmont discovered my inclinations He took care to be at the place before the company assembled

An accouineas and bank notes sufficient to convince er as they could desire, and to increase my ardour was occasionally suffered to win a rich stake My success was of short duration; I soon began to lose and foae In the midst of this scene, Hector Mowbray and tall Andrews came in; who unknown to me were at Bath They saw me close my accounts, and by their looks enjoyed an to be numerous, understood that I left off play because I had no eon was completely plucked

This was the climax ofsix hours, I sat in a state of absolute stupor; and echoed the uproar and blaspheroans I do not know that I so much as moved, till the company was entirely dispersed, and I akened frouidly returned to er to support the conflicting torture

END OF VOLUME III

VOLUME IV

CHAPTER I

_The pains and penalties of illicit atte rief acts as a temporary opiate: for a short time it lulls the sufferer to insensibility, and sleep; but it is only to recruit hiings, I appeared to nation The die was cast My doom was irrevocable; and despair itself seeour, of one I was reduced to an inevitable post-horse kind of endurance; and had only now to be thankful if I ant confidence in radations declined, though with excruciating pangs at every step, till I now at last found gering home in this temper, I undressed myself, went to bed with stupid composure, and felt like a wretch that had been stretched on the rack, and, having just been taken off, was suffered to sink into lifeless languor, because he could endure nosensations soon became turbulent, oppressive, fevered, terrific, yet cumbrous, and impossible to awake fro, when I returned to reat that I seemed as if I could have slept for centuries; and, so es that haunted me, that, the time actually appeared indefinitely protracted: a e: yet it was littlenature had cast off her horrible night-uish of the past day and night again seized me Pains innuht was a new serpent Mine was the head of Medusa: with this difference; my scorpions shed all their venom inward

Confusion of reatest in minds that are the seldomest subject to it; and with those the pain is proportionably intense The conflict was too violent to be endured, without an endeavour to get rid of it I rose, traversed , and at last rushed into the street; with a sort of feeling that, when in the open air, the atmosphere of misery that enveloped me would be sed up, and lost, in the infinite expanse

The hope was vain: it wrapped me round like a cloak It was a universal caustic, that would not endure to be touched; riped my hands I struck , with sudden turns and frantic bounds; and, findingin