In about a month Captain Dancy and Mr Simpson came over, and it was much more pleasant.

We used to go to the opera and the play nearly every night, and Captain Dancy introduced me to Madame Duvet, and she introduced me to a great many other ladies, English and French, and we had a good deal of fun.

I went to balls and parties, and picture galleries, and the Champs Elysees, and all the fashionable places.' 'But where did Howel meet with Mr Deep ?' interrupted Owen.
'Oh! he used to be with him from the first.

They are very old friends, Howel says, and have known one another for years; he is a very fashionable man, an attorney by profession.

Simpson says that the races couldn't go on without him.' 'I should think not,' said Owen, smiling; 'at all events, Mr Simpson's races would be at a stand still without him.