And, what--eh! any good news from our friends over the water ?--and how does the worthy king of France?
Or perhaps you are more lately from Rome ?--it must be Rome will do it at last--the church must light its candle at the old lamp.

Eh! what, cautious?
I like you the better; but no fear.' Here Mr.Pembroke, with some difficulty, stopped a torrent of interrogations, eked out with signs, nods, and winks; and, having at length convinced the bookseller that he did him too much honour in supposing him an emissary of exiled royalty, he explained his actual business.
The man of books, with a much more composed air, proceeded to examine the manuscripts.

The title of the first was 'A Dissent from Dissenters, or the Comprehension confuted; showing the Impossibility of any Composition between the Church and Puritans, Presbyterians, or Sectaries of any Description; illustrated from the Scriptures, the fathers of the Church, and the soundest Controversial Divines.' To this work the bookseller positively demurred.

'Well meant,' he said, 'and learned, doubtless; but the time had gone by.

Printed on small pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay.