He will simply allude, in conclusion, to the performances of the Mysterious Foundling, as exhibiting perfection hitherto unparalleled in the Art of Legerdemain, with wonders of untraceable intricacy on the cards, originally the result of abstruse calculations made by that renowned Algebraist, Mohammed Engedi, extending over a period of ten years, dating from the year 1215 of the Arab Chronology.

More than this Mr.Jubber will not venture to mention, for 'Seeing is Believing,' and the Mysterious Foundling must be seen to be believed.

For prices of admission consult bottom of bill." Mr.Blyth read this grotesquely shocking narrative with sentiments which were anything rather than complimentary to the taste, the delicacy, and the humanity of the fluent Mr.Jubber.He consulted the bottom of the bill, however, as requested; and ascertained what were the prices of admission--then glanced at the top, and observed that the first performance was fixed for that very evening--looked about him absently for a minute or two--and resolved to be present at it.
Most assuredly, Valentine's resolution did not proceed from that dastard insensibility to all decent respect for human suffering which could feast itself on the spectacle of calamity paraded for hire, in the person of a deaf and dumb child of ten years old.

His motives for going to the circus were stained by no trace of such degradation as this.

But what were they then?
That question he himself could not have answered: it was a common predicament with him not to know his own motives, generally from not inquiring into them.