Part 52 (2/2)

'Had I a sufficient h for such an exertion'

'Then try The exercise will be wholesome Shew your skill and acuteness Here is your twenty-pound bill: win and take it; or own that you have no confidence in yourself'

'I have that confidence which assures me I shall, one day or other, convince you that I understand the road to happiness better than yourself'

'Yet you are cursedly afraid of me You scarcely can sit still You bla to spend the afternoon withcoals as a pack of cards in my company'

'And what is it you find so omnipotent in yourself, that it should induce you to all this vapouring?'

'I tell you again, you dare not oppose your penetration to mine You pretend to despise me, yet own I am your master A child is not in more fear of the rod than you are ofthe bell for cards

They were brought: he shuffled, cut them, and continued to banter me

'What card do you chuse?--The knave of hearts?--There it is!' [He shewed it, with a flirt of the cards, at the bottom of the pack] His brother of diamonds?--Look! You have it!--Of spades?--Presto! It is here! You have three knaves on your side, you see I will keep the fourth, and drive you out of the field--Come, for twenty?'

'I see your aim, and am devilishly te as you think yourself'

'I know you are: but you dare not You cannot shake off your fears

The wit, thesenator suspects he is only a half-fledged bird'

'Cut for deal, sir'

'Why, will you venture?--The nine'

The sudden recollection of Mr Evelyn, the enerous confidence he had reposed into abuse that confidence, fortunately seized me with a kind of horror I snatched up the cards, dashed the myself said--'You shall find, sir, that, whether I can or cannot o out of this roouineas for twenty'

'Done!' answered I, impetuously: which he in an instant echoed with Done! Done! and, again bursting into laughter, held out his hand and bade s

I immediately discovered, without his explanation, that he had entrapped me, by the equivocal sense of the word _chance_; and I drew out nation that I should be so caught

However, as it was not his intention to profit by so bald and barefaced a quirk, he only laughed; and exclaientleman is his own master! But I will not pick your pocket If at any time I should want twenty pounds, I shall have a fair claim to ask it as a loan'

'Would you but really act like a man of honour, there would be no need of such an artifice'

'Perhaps not, for the first ti, and could not repay its borrowings, I am afraid my honor would irrevocably be lost I therefore prefer, since in either case lose it Ito flock together; and I eon-house: the rookery'

'I do not understand the ter office: the crab and nick nest: the pip and bone quarry: the raffleariu shop: the wholesale ague and fever warehouse'

'In plain English, to an asseamblers'