I went to work very patiently for a short time, and contracted some agreeable friendships with gentlemen whom I met at an ordinary in St.James's.

Still, my duns, though I paid them by driblets, were the plague of my life.

I confessed as much to one of my new friends.

'Come to Bath with me,' quoth he, 'for a week, and you shall return as rich as a Jew.' I accepted the offer, and went to Bath in my friend's chariot.

He took the name of Lord Dunshunner, an Irish peer who had never been out of Tipperary, and was not therefore likely to be known at Bath.