'Suicide ?' says I.

'Marriage,' says he.
Within a month he was married to the second Miss Shuttleworth, who had five thou.

in her own right, and five more when Lord Dungeness turns up his toes." "Indeed ?" said his companion languidly.
"Fact, 'pon me honour! By the way--ah, here comes Lord Henry Richardson.
How d'ye do, Richardson, how d'ye do?
Ged, I remember Richardson when he was a tow-headed boy at Clongowes, and I used to lam him with a bootjack for his cheek.

Ah, yes; I was going to say--it seems a demned awkward incident--ha! ha!--ridiculous, but annoying, you know.

The fact is, me boy, coming away in a hurry from me little place, I left me purse on the drawers in the bedroom, and here's Jorrocks up in the billiard-room afther challenging me to play for a tenner--but I won't without having the money in me pocket.