But I was not allowed even to carry a broom.
Twice or thrice--for Lady Tiptoff did not wish her little boy often to breathe the air of such a close place as Salisbury Square--my dear Mary came in the thundering carriage to see me.

They were merry meetings; and--if the truth must be told--twice, when nobody was by, I jumped into the carriage and had a drive with her; and when I had seen her home, jumped into another hackney-coach and drove back.

But this was only twice; for the system was dangerous, and it might bring me into trouble, and it cost three shillings from Grosvenor Square to Ludgate Hill.
Here, meanwhile, my good mother kept me company; and what should we read of one day but the marriage of Mrs.Hoggarty and the Rev.Grimes Wapshot! My mother, who never loved Mrs.H., now said that she should repent all her life having allowed me to spend so much of my time with that odious ungrateful woman; and added that she and I too were justly punished for worshipping the mammon of unrighteousness and forgetting our natural feelings for the sake of my aunt's paltry lucre.

"Well, Amen!" said I.
"This is the end of all our fine schemes! My aunt's money and my aunt's diamond were the causes of my ruin, and now they are clear gone, thank Heaven! and I hope the old lady will be happy; and I must say I don't envy the Rev.Grimes Wapshot." So we put Mrs.Hoggarty out of our thoughts, and made ourselves as comfortable as might be.
Rich and great people are slower in making Christians of their children than we poor ones, and little Lord Poynings was not christened until the month of June.

A duke was one godfather, and Mr.Edmund Preston, the State Secretary, another; and that kind Lady Jane Preston, whom I have before spoken of, was the godmother to her nephew.