'Perhaps I have been a little less of a fool and a little more of a rogue than my prototype; but the end is the same.

D----n me, I am sorry for the servants, doctor--though I dare swear that they have robbed me right and left.

It is a pity that clumsy fool, Dunborough, did not get home when he had the chance the other day.' The doctor took snuff, put up his box, filled his glass and emptied it before he spoke.

Then, 'No, no, Sir George, it has not come to that yet,' he said heartily.

'There is only one thing for it now.