Well, Sir, you shall have the whole thing, from beginning to end.

Sedley and I were one day conversing together about women.

Sid was a very deep fellow in that game: no passion you know; no love on his own side; nothing of the sort; all done by rule and compass; knew women as well as dice, and calculated the exact moment when his snares would catch them, according to the principles of geometry.

D----d clever fellow, faith; but a confounded rascal: but let it go no further; mum's the word! must not slander the dead; and 'tis only my suspicion, you know, after all.

Poor fellow: I don't think he was such a rascal; he gave a beggar an angel once,--well, boy, have a pinch ?--Well, so I said to Sir Charles, 'I think you will lose the widow, after all,--'Gad I do.' 'Upon what principle of science, Sir William ?' said he.