Barry, when a boy, learns the slang and the gait of the debauched gentlemen of the day.

He is specially proud of being a gentleman by birth and manners.

He had been kidnapped, and made to serve as a common soldier, but boasts that he was at once fit for the occasion when enabled to show as a court gentleman.

"I came to it at once," he says, "and as if I had never done anything else all my life.

I had a gentleman to wait upon me, a French _friseur_ to dress my hair of a morning.