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"Sir," said Peterby in an altered tone, "I think I do"

"Then--sit down, John, and let us talk"

With a

Barnabas with his shrewd eyes

"You will reain,

"that when I engaged you I told you that I intended to--huure in the fashionable world?"

"Yes, sir; and I told you that,--after what happened in a certain

wood,--it was practically impossible"

"You mean because I thrashed a scoundrel?"

"I ent"

"And is Carnaby so very powerful, Peterby?"

"Sir, he is--the Prince's friend! He is also as great a Buck as

George Hanger, as Jehu, or Jockey of Norfolk, and as famous, almost,

as the late Sir Maurice Vibart"

"Ah!" said Barnabas

"And since the retireham have to some extent taken his place and become the

Arbiters of Fashion"

"Oh!" said Barnabas

"And furthererous eneland"

"Huin, sir?"

"At once, Peterby"

"But--how, sir?"

"That is for you to decide, Peterby"

"Me, sir?"