Hard upon the back of which, in came your humble servant, and laid before him the direct proof of what we had been so long suspecting.

There was no dubiety permitted.

M.Alain's expensive way of life, his clothes and mistresses, his dicing and racehorses, were all explained: he was in the pay of Buonaparte, a hired spy, and a man that held the strings of what I can only call a convolution of extremely fishy enterprises.

To do M.de Keroual justice, he took it in the best way imaginable, destroyed the evidences of the one great-nephew's disgrace--and transferred his interest wholly to the other.' 'What am I to understand by that ?' said I.
'I will tell you,' says he.

'There is a remarkable inconsistency in human nature which gentlemen of my cloth have a great deal of occasion to observe.