When, however, I inform you that a vampyre is in that family, and that if he marries into it, he marries a vampyre, and will have vampyres for children, I trust I have said enough to warn you upon the subject, and to induce you to lose no time in repairing to the spot.
"If you stop at the Nelson's Arms at Uxotter, you will hear of me.

I can be sent for, when I will tell you more.
"Yours, very obediently and humbly, "JOSIAH CRINKLES." "P.S.

I enclose you Dr.Johnson's definition of a vampyre, which is as follows: "VAMPYRE (a German blood-sucker)--by which you perceive how many vampyres, from time immemorial, must have been well entertained at the expense of John Bull, at the court of St.James, where no thing hardly is to be met with but German blood-suckers." [Illustration] * * * * * The lawyer ceased to read, and the amazed look with which he glanced at the face of Admiral Bell would, under any other circumstances, have much amused him.

His mind, however, was by far too much engrossed with a consideration of the danger of Charles Holland, his nephew, to be amused at anything; so, when he found that the little lawyer said nothing, he bellowed out,-- "Well, sir ?" "We--we--well," said the attorney.
"I've sent for you, and here you are, and here I am, and here's Jack Pringle.

What have you got to say ?" "Just this much," said Mr.Crinkles, recovering himself a little, "just this much, sir, that I never saw that letter before in all my life." "You--never--saw--it ?" "Never." "Didn't you write it ?" "On my solemn word of honour, sir, I did not." Jack Pringle whistled, and the admiral looked puzzled.