I had the same intelligence in her London house which I had procured in Dublin.

The same faithful porter was there to give me all the information I required.

I promised to treble his wages as soon as a certain event should happen.

I won over Lady Lyndon's companion by a present of a hundred guineas down, and a promise of two thousand when I should be married, and gained the favours of her favourite lady's-maid by a bribe of similar magnitude.

My reputation had so far preceded me in London that, on my arrival, numbers of the genteel were eager to receive me at their routs.