me at my lodgings? my landlord says he has a bit of red-deer venison, and some excellent wine?"
"Venison—eh? But no! it's impossible—and I can't ask you home neither. Monday's a sacred day—so's Tuesday—and Wednesday, we are to be heard in the great teind case in presence—but stay—it's frosty weather, and if you don't leave town, and that venison would keep till Thursday"———
"You will dine with me that day?"
"Under certification."
"Well, then, I will indulge a thought I had of spending a week here; and if the venison will not keep, why we will see what else our landlord can do for us."
"O, the venison will keep," said Pleydell; "and now good bye—look at these two or three cards, and deliver them if you like the addresses. I wrote them for you this morning—farewell, my clerk has been waiting this hour to begin a d—d information."—And away walked Mr Pley-
