Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1850-11-07

NO, no, MT. =, don't 90 business
lin that way, l shall be satisfied with ten
lper cent"
1t was SO settled. / then led him out
into the street, impelled to tell him the
news, yet dreading the effect; not dar-
ling to make the revelation IN my Office
for fear of scene.
Ibcgan hcsitatingly, Mr.. Fitz-R Roy,
| am happy to say that | find you are en-
titled to = y ten thousand pounds!"
/" Ten thousand pounds !" he echoed.
/" Ten thousand pounds ~ he shrieked.
" Ten thousand pounds !" he yelled
seizing my arm violently. /" You are
brick, Here, cab! cab!' Several drove
up--the shout might have been heard
mile off. He jumped in the FIRST.
Where TOP" said the driver.
/" To tailor's, you rascal!'
Ten thousand pounds ha, ha, ha -
he repeated Historically, when in the
cab; and every moment grasping my
arm. Presently he subsidized, looking me
straight in the face, and muttering with
agonizing fervor, "What jolly brick
you are y
The tailor, the hosier, the boot-maker,
the hair-dresser, were in turn visited by
this poor pagan of externals. AS by de-
Igrees under their hands he emerged
from the beggar to the gentleman, his
spirits rose his eyes frightened; he
walked erect, but always nervously
lgrasping my arm; fearing, apparently,
Ito lose sight of me for moment, lest his
fortune should vanish with me. The
inpatient pride with which he gave his
orders TO the astoLished tradesmen for
the finest and best Of every thing, and
the amazed air Of the fashionable hair
dresser when he presented his matted
locks and stubble chin, TO be g cut and
shaved" may be acted--it cannot be de-
scribed.
BY the time the external TRANSFORMED
ton was complete, and / sat down in
Bart in the Haymarket opposite hag-
gard, but handsome thorough bred look
ing man, whose air, with the exception
of the wild eyes and deeply Drowned
face, did not differ from the stereotyped
men about town sitting around us, Mr..
Molinos Fitz- Roy had already almost
forgotten the past; he bullied the waiter,
and criticised the wine, as if he had done
nothing else but dine, and drink, and
scold there all the days of his life.
Once he wished TO drink my health,
and would have proclaimed his whole
story to the coffee-room assembly, in a
raving style. When l left he almost
wcpt in terror at the idea Of losing sight
Of me. But, allowing for these cbulli-
ltions--the natural result Of such a whirl
of events,-he was wonderfully calm
and self-possessed.
The next day, his first care was to
distribute fifty pounds among his friends
the cadgers, at house of call in West
minister, and formally TO dissolve his
connection with them; those present
undertaking for the " fraternity" that
for the future, he should never be no.
ticed by them in public or private.
cannot follow his career much fur
Their. Adversely had taught him nothing.
He was soon again surrounded by the
lwell-bred vampires who had forgotten
him when penniless but they amused
him, and that was enough. The ten
thousand pounds were rapidly melting,
when he invited me to grand dinner at
Richmond, which included dozen of
the most agreeable looking well-dressed
dandics of London, interpreted with
display of pretty bonnets. We dined
deliciously, and drank as men do Of iced
wines in the dog looking down
from Richmond Hill.
One of the pink bonnets crowned
|Fitz-Roy with a wreath Of flowers; he
looked-less the intellect-as handsome
as Alcibiades. Intensely excited and
flushed, he rose with champagne glass
in his hand to propose my health.
The oratorical powers of his father
had not descended on him. Jerking out
sentences by spasms, at length he said,
I" was beggar-I am a gentleman
thanks to this -"
Here he leaned on my shoulder heavily
a moment, and then fell back. We raised
him, loosened his neckcloth--
Fainted," said the ladies'
"Drunk % said the gentlemen
He was DrAnf