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The lady, returning as he restored it to his

pocket,her fair self,

and handed to every one his glass When all were supplied, Mr Rugg rose,

and silently holding out his glass at aresture invited the other three to add theirs, and to

unite in a general conspiratorial clink The ceremony was effective up

to a certain point, and would have been wholly so throughout, if Miss

Rugg, as she raised her glass to her lips in co John; when she was again so overcome by the

contemptible comicality of his disinterestedness as to splutter some

ambrosial drops of rum and water around, and withdraw in confusion

Such was the dinner without precedent, given by Pancks at Pentonville;

and such was the busy and strange life Pancks led The only waking

moments at which he appeared to relax fro anywhere or saying anything without a pervading object,

hen he showed a dawning interest in the la Heart Yard

The foreigner, by name John Baptist Cavalletto--they called hi, easy, hopeful little fellow,

that his attraction for Pancks was probably in the force of contrast

Solitary, weak, and scantily acquainted with the e in which he could communicate with the people about

him, he ith the stream of his fortunes, in a brisk way that was

new in those parts With little to eat, and less to drink, and nothing