MR.

WILLIAM BELTON TAKES A WALK IN LONDON.
At the time of my story there was a certain Mr.Green, a worthy attorney, who held chambers in Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, much to the profit of himself and family,--and to the profit and comfort also of a numerous body of clients,--a man much respected in the neighbourhood of Chancery Lane, and beloved, I do not doubt, in the neighbourhood of Bushey, in which delightfully rural parish he was possessed of a genteel villa and ornamental garden.

With Mr.Green's private residence we shall, I believe, have no further concern; but to him at his chambers in Stone Buildings I must now introduce the reader of these memoirs.

He was a man not yet forty years of age, with still much of the salt of youth about him, a pleasant companion as well as a good lawyer, and one who knew men and things in London, as it is given to pleasant clever fellows, such as Joseph Green, to know them.

Now Mr.Green, and his father before him, had been the legal advisers of the Amedroz family, and our Mr.Joseph Green had had but a bad time of it with Charles Amedroz in the last years of that unfortunate young man's life.