The card in question was a little matter of two hundred pounds owing from Swiney to Rich, and the latter fondly believed that this loan would bind the debtor to him as with hooks of steel.

But we do not love men the more because they chance to be our creditors; sometimes, indeed, we love them the less for it, and so these two hundred pounds did not prevent the Celt from breaking over the traces of the Englishman.

Let Cibber continue the story: * * * * * "The first word I heard of this transaction was by a letter from Swiney, inviting me to make one in the Hay-Market Company.

whom he hop'd I could not but now think the stronger party.

But I confess I was not a little alarm'd at this revolution.