We public men are obliged often to seek our refreshment at hours when luckier individuals are lapt in slumber." "And what may be your occupation, Mr.Bayham ?" asks the Colonel, rather gloomily, for he had an idea that Bayham was adopting a strain of persiflage which the Indian gentleman by no means relished.

Never saying aught but a kind word to any one, he was on fire at the notion that any should take a liberty with him.
"A barrister, sir, but without business--a literary man, who can but seldom find an opportunity to sell the works of his brains--a gentleman, sir, who has met with neglect, perhaps merited, perhaps undeserved, from his family.

I get my bread as best I may.

On that evening I had been lecturing on the genius of some of our comic writers, at the Parthenopoeon, Hackney.

My audience was scanty, perhaps equal to my deserts.