The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-05-25

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~ WAS 80 settled. 4 then led him out into
the street, impelled to tell him the news, yet
,dreaaing the effect; not daring to make the
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Y .Ien thousand pound, 7, he echoed ago.
O00!' he sbriekod; "elO,OOO!" he yelled,
eelzlng my arm violently. 'sYou are brick.
might have been heard milo OF. He Jumped
in the first
sWhero tor" said tho driver. q
To tailor's, you rascall" s
Ten thousand pohndsl hn, ha, ha! he re-
peated hysteriesly VII en- in the cab and every
sided, looked me straight in the, face, and NUT
tered with agonizing fervor.
what jolly brick you are!"
The tailor, tho hosier, tho bootmaker, the
hair dresser, we're in turn visited by this poor
pagan of externals. As, by degrees, under
their hands, he emerged from the belegar to
the gentleman, his spirits rose; his eyes bright
ened; he walked erect, but always nervously
grasplng my arm; fearing apparently, to lose
sight or me for q moment lest his fortune
should vanish with me-. The impatient pride
with which he gave his orders to the astonished
tradssnan for tho finest and best of everything,
and the amazed air of tho fashionable hair
dresser when he presented his matted looks
and stubble chin, to be scut and shaved" may
be acted-it cannot be described.
By the time the external transformation was
complete, and I sat down in a cafe in the Hay
market, opposite haggard, but handsome,
MISUNDERSTANDING man, whose air, with the
exception of the wild eyes and deeply Drowned
face, did not differ from the stereotyped men
about aI town sitting around us, Mr.. Molinos
hoI uIr uft1y nj o.
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 no wished to drink my health, and
would have proclaimed his whole story to the
coffee room assembly in o raving STYLE When
I left he almost wspt in terror at tho idea of
losing sight of me. But allowing for these
ebullitions--the natural result of such whirl
of events-he was won ierfully calm and self
possessed. ,..f' .sa. .-.I,r;I! 80
The next day bis first care was to distribute
200 among his friends, the badgers, at a house
of call in Westminster, and formerly to dis
solve bis connection with them; those present
undertaking for the fraternity" that for the
future he should never be noticed by them in
public or private. cannot follow his career
much farther. Adversely had taught him
nothing. He was soon again surrounded by
well-bred vampires. who had forgotten him
whsn penniless; but they amused him, and
that was enough The ElO, 900 were rapidly
melting when he invited me to grand dinner
OF Richmond, which included dozen of the
landles Of London, fnterspsrsei WITH dispsy
of pretty butterfly bonnets. We dined delic-
iously, and drank as men do of iced wines in
the dog days-looking down from Richmond
hill
One of the pink bonnets crowned Fitz-Roy
with wreath of flowers; he looked-less the
intellect-as handsome rs Alcibiades. In
tensely excited and flushed, he rose with a
champagne glass in his hand to propose my
health
The oratorical powers of his father had not
descended to him. Jerking out sentences by
spasms, at length he said, 81 was beggar-
am gentleman-thanks to this"
Here he leaned heavily on my shoulder
moment and then fell back. We raised him,
loo.ened his neckcloth-
"Fainted!" said the ladies'
"Drunk!" said the gentlemen.
He was deadl