and King's Counsel, had not a single guinea in the world but what he received for attending our board; and the only man seizable was Mr.Manstraw, a wealthy navy contractor, as we understood, at Chatham.

He turned out to be a small dealer in marine stores, and his whole stock in trade was not worth 10_l_.

Mr.Abednego was the other director, and we have already seen what became of _him_.
"Why, as there is no danger from the West Diddlesex," suggested Mr.
Hoskins, senior, "should you not now endeavour to make an arrangement with your creditors; and who can make a better bargain with them than pretty Mrs.Titmarsh here, whose sweet eyes would soften the hardest-hearted tailor or milliner that ever lived ?" Accordingly my dear girl, one bright day in February, shook me by the hand, and bidding me be of good cheer, set forth with Gus in a coach, to pay a visit to those persons.

Little did I think a year before, that the daughter of the gallant Smith should ever be compelled to be a suppliant to tailors and haberdashers; but _she_, Heaven bless her! felt none of the shame which oppressed me--or _said_ she felt none--and went away, nothing doubting, on her errand.
In the evening she came back, and my heart thumped to know the news.

I saw it was bad by her face.