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 GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
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ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 It \yill, doubtless, be in the recollection of many of 
 the readers of ''The Gentleman in Black," that zi por- 
 tion of the work appeared some years ago, in a periodi- 
 cal entitled "The Literary Magnet." That publi- 
 cation, liowever, having long since been discontinued, 
 the greater part of this volume has never yet appeared 
 in print. At the request of the Subscribers, Vv'ho v>'ere 
 anxious that the tale should be completed, it was the 
 author's intention to have had it immediately republish- 
 ed in an entire form, but on applying for the remainder 
 of the manuscript, he was informed that it was mislaid. 
 He has, therefore, been under the necessity of entirely 
 re-writing it, and now, having received his latest cor- 
 rections, it is presented to the public. 
 
 Old Bond Street, 
 
 Nov. 25, 1830. 
 
THE 
 
 iSimtUtnun in mnt^. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 **What the devil shall I do?" exclaimed Louis De- 
 songes: "not a sous have I in the world besides that 
 solitary five franc piece! and where the next is to come 
 from I cannot divine. What the devil must I do?" 
 
 "Did you call, Monsieur?" asked a gentle voice, 
 which seemed to proceed from the more dusky corner 
 of the apartment, in which Louis was sitting in his old 
 arm chair, before a worm-eaten table covered with 
 books and papers. 
 
 "Who, in the name of fate, are you?" responded the 
 unhappy youth, looking round in search of the indivi- 
 dual from whom the inquiry had proceeded. 
 
 "Precisely so, replied a stout, short, middle-aged 
 gentleman, of a somewhat saturnine complexion, as he 
 advanced from — we can't say exactly where — into the 
 A 2 
 
6 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 middle of the room. He was clad in black, according 
 to the fashion of the day; had a loose Geneva cloak, 
 as an upper garment, of the same colour; and carried 
 a large bundle of black-edged papers, tied with black 
 tape, under his arm. Without the smallest ceremony, 
 he placed a chair opposite our hero, bowed, seated 
 himself, smiled, laid his papers on the table, rubbed 
 his hands, and appeared altogether prepared for busi- 
 ness. Louis felt somewhat embarrassed, but returned 
 the stranger's bow with all due civility; and, after a 
 brief, awkward pause, ventured to inquire the name 
 of the gentleman whom he had the honour of address- 
 ing. 
 
 "It is of little moment," replied his extraordinary 
 visiter: "you are in difficulties, and it is in my power 
 to assist you;" and so saying, he began, in due form, to 
 untie, and "sort out" his papers upon the table. Poor 
 Louis looked on in silence, and sighing, bethought him- 
 self that if he had been as constant in his attendance 
 at lectures, and in the courts, as at the billiard-tables 
 and gaming-houses of the Palais Royal, he might have 
 picked up law enough to have enabled him to involve 
 a case, in which so many documents were necessary, 
 in a yet deeper state of mystification. "As it is," 
 thought he, "the man will soon discover my ignorance 
 —so, as I have not yet practised, PU be honest, and 
 tell him the truth at once." 
 
 "You need not trouble yourself to do that, Sir," said 
 the stranger. 
 
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 "To do what, Sir?" interrogated Louis, "I did not 
 say anything." 
 
 "I know that, my dear Sir," observed the gentleman 
 in the cloak, still busying himself with his papers, "but 
 it is just the same thing." 
 
 ^^fVhat is just the same thing? I don't at all compre- 
 hend you!" exclaimed the youth. 
 
 "Precisely so," continued the stranger, "there, they 
 are all correct, I believe — so, my dear Sir, as you were 
 saying" 
 
 "Excuse me. Sir," said Louis, "I was not saying any- 
 thing." 
 
 "Pardon mc, my dear young friend," quoth the gen- 
 tleman with the black-edged papers, "you talked of 
 telling me the truth at once." 
 
 "Not I, Sir, I only thought of doing so." 
 
 "Oh! that's all the same with «s." 
 
 "Then yoii're no lawyer, I'm sure," replied the 
 youth, 
 
 "Not 1, my friend, but, really — I should be sorry to 
 appear unpolite to a gentleman of your birth and ta- 
 lents; the fact, however, is, that my engagements are, 
 just now, exceedingly numerous and pressing; there- 
 fore, allow me just to explain. This paper" ■ 
 
 "Confound this head-ache," thought poor Louis to 
 himself, "If I had gone to bed last night, instead of 
 watching over the rouge et noir table, and losing my" 
 
 'Pshaw! pshaw! smell this bottle," said the stranger, 
 
8 THEGENTLEMANIN BLACK. 
 
 t 
 
 politely handing a small, exquisitely cut black glass 
 bottle, which he took out of a black ebony case. 
 
 The young gentleman did so, and felt "powerfully 
 refreshed;" his head instantly appeared clearer, and 
 his whole frame exhilirated. 
 
 "Mon Dieu!" he' exclaimed, "Monsieur, where did 
 you buy that wonderful specific?" 
 
 "Hist!" ejaculated the stranger, "Don't swear, I en- 
 treat you. It is extremely disagreeable to me." 
 
 "Well, then, I will not," said Louis; but — pray in- 
 form me! Poor little Louise! and Adele! and the 
 Comtesse! They'd adore me, if I could but procure 
 for them such a specific. Pray, Monsieur, I conjure 
 you, in the name of" 
 
 "Stop!" cried the other, starting from his chair, "not 
 a word more! There, there, I make you a present of 
 the bottle, case and all. I manufactured it myself for 
 the use of particular friends only." 
 
 "Pll give you a thousand francs for the recipe," ex- 
 claimed Louis. 
 
 "Where will you find the money?" asked the stran- 
 ger, coolly settling himself back in his chair, like a man 
 who has found his 'vantage ground. 
 
 "Where, indeed!" groaned poor Louis. Then, hav- 
 ing rested his head awhile upon his'.^mpty palm, he 
 bethought him that something might be made of the 
 stranger's papers, and, therefore, addressed himself to 
 business. 
 
 "I should ask your pardon, Sir," said he, "for talk- 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLAOK. 9 
 
 ing of perfumes; I accept this bottle as a token of 
 amity between us, and now if you please" 
 
 "Good!" observed the gentleman in black, "that is 
 what I wish. I am a plain man" — (somewhat plain, I 
 must confess, thought Louis) — "well, that's nothing. I 
 wish to act handsomely by you; I have taken a great 
 fancy to you, and you are over head-and-ears in debt 
 — have a hopeless love affair — have neglected your 
 studies — offended your uncle — shattered your constitu- 
 tion" 
 
 "Mon Dieu!" exclaimed the youth. 
 
 "If you say that again. Sir," said the gentleman in 
 black, "I shall take my departure. I told you before 
 that I objected to swearing." 
 
 "Diable, then!" cried Louis. 
 
 "That's better," quoth his companion, smiling, and 
 taking a pinch of blackguard, (which an Irish gentle- 
 man, in a passion, had given him,) out of a black tor- 
 toise-shell box, handed it politely to our hero. 
 
 "No, Sir," said the latter, sternly, "you and your 
 snuff may go to h — together." 
 
 "Precisely so," calmly observed the stranger, return- 
 ing the box to his pocket, but not offering to move 
 from his chair. 
 
 "This is a little too much," cried the enraged young 
 Frenchman, starting upon his legs, "tell me. Sir, what 
 you mean by intruding upon my privacy, and insulting 
 me with the repetition of all my misfortunes? Who, 
 and what the devil are you." 
 
10 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "Precisely so, as I told you before," replied the un- 
 ruffled stranger. 
 
 "Precisely what? I don't understand you! You may 
 be the devil himself, for aught I know." 
 
 "Precisely so," was the reply. 
 
 "You don't mean to say you really are the" 
 
 "Precisely so. We have an objection to plain yes 
 and no." 
 
 "Then you are a lawyer after all." 
 
 "Not I, though I confess I have practised occasional- 
 ly: — but, pshaw! this is a waste of time. I know your 
 troubles and difficulties; and v^ould^elp you through 
 them, if you will allow me. I have money to any 
 amount at my disposal and immediate command, as 
 you may satisfy yourself;" and he threw a large black 
 morocco leather pocket-book upon the table; where it 
 instantly burst open from the extension of (to poor 
 Louis's eyes) an innumerable quantity of billets de 
 banque, for 500 francs each. "And as for gold," — and 
 he began to draw from his breeches' pocket a black 
 satin purse, to which Louis thought there would be 
 no end, so singularly did it appear to elongate itself, as 
 the stranger continued to tug it from its dark abode, 
 till it had attained the full extent of a Flemish ell. 
 Yet, in his hands, it appeared light as the eider-down, 
 till having placed it carefully on the table, the weight 
 of the gold within rent asunder its silken prison, and a 
 large quantity of louis d'ors rolled out upon the table. 
 
 Louis looked first at the immense wealth before him, 
 
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 then at his visiter; again at the gold and notes; and so 
 on, alternately, about half a dozen times, ere he found 
 himself capable of uttering even an exclamation of 
 surpiise. And each time his eyes rested upon the stran- 
 ger's countenance, he discerned some new charm of 
 feature and expression; and he at length decided that 
 he had never before seen so perfectly elegant, agree- 
 able, interesting, well-bred, and accomplished a gentle- 
 man; and wondered how he could for an instant have 
 considered him a plain man. 
 
 "It's always the way," observed the gentleman in 
 black, "strangers think me any thing but handsome; 
 yet, as we get more intimate, my society becomes 
 more and more agreeable, so that at last my friends are 
 ever endeavouring to imitate me in all their actions 
 and pursuits: but you'll know more about that bye 
 and bye." 
 
 Poor Louis had by this time made up his mind that 
 his visiter was no other than his Infernal Majesty, and 
 would instantly have made application to his patron 
 saint, and as many more as he could recollect the titles 
 of, without looking into his calendar, upon the subject, 
 had it not been for the dazzling gold, which he some- 
 how instinctively apprehended would vanish from his 
 sight at the sound of their names. If he had said his 
 pater noster that morning, what now lay before him 
 was not, most assuredly, the sort of temptation from 
 which he would have dreamed of imploring deliver- 
 ance. The dark, middle-aged gentleman saw the gold 
 
12 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "enter into his soul," and let it work its way in silence 
 for a short time, watching his victim's countenance, and 
 ever and anon looking disconcerted, as the youth's 
 guardian angel seemed to be whispering in his ear. 
 
 "Well, Monsieur le Baron!" ejaculated he at length, 
 "perhaps the trifle you see on the table may be of 
 some little service to you?" 
 
 "I am no Baron,'' observed Louis. 
 
 "So much the worse." 
 
 "I know that well enough," rejoined Louis^ testily, 
 and heaved a sigh as he thought of the fair Emilie, 
 and her most perpendicular father, the Comte de Tien 
 a la Cour. 
 
 "It's your own fault," continued the gentleman in 
 black, bustling up to the table, and opening a paper; 
 "you have but to sign this document, and what you see 
 on the table is but a trifle when compared with the 
 riches you may command; besides uninterrupted health, 
 and, indeed, whatever you wish for; since money you 
 know, my dear friend, carries all before it." 
 
 "And pray. Sir," asked Louis, influenced, as he after- 
 wards declared, 77zere/y by curiosity, but determined not 
 to sign the paper upon any terms, "what may be the 
 contents of that document?" 
 
 "A mere bagatelle; look it over yourself. Only to 
 sin for a single second this year, two seconds the next; 
 to double it the third, and so on with each succeeding 
 year. I say the penalty amounts, in fact, to nothing; 
 for the truth is, you will sin for a much longer period 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 13 
 
 annually if you do not sign it, to say nothing of the 
 crimes which poverty and desperation may drive you 
 to commit." So saying, he threw the paper carelessly 
 towards poor Louis, and betook himself to his black- 
 guard, with due gentlemanly nonchalance. 
 
 The youth read — "Sin for a second in the first year, 
 two seconds the second," then looked at the gold. "Let 
 I me see," said he, calculating, "that will be four seconds 
 the third year — eight seconds the fourth — sixteen se- 
 conds the fifth — thirty-two seconds the sixth, and" 
 
 "Exactly so," said the gentleman in black, interrupt- 
 ing him, "that is about a minute in the course of the 
 whole six years. And, beside, you'll observe a clause, 
 by which all the sins you have committed before, and 
 all that you may in future commit, ovc?f and above the 
 stipulated agreement, will be taken into account. So 
 that you see not even a hermit need live more imma- 
 culately." 
 
 "I must confess you are very liberal," observed 
 young Desonges, doubtingly. 
 
 "You'll always find me liberal," said the other, hand- 
 ing a pen across the table. 
 
 "Stop! stop! Let me read the whole paper first." 
 
 "Oh, by all means! You'll find all correctly express- 
 ed." 
 
 Louis ascertained the manner in which he was to 
 
 obtain daily supplies of money, so long as the stipula- 
 
 N tions in the contract were fulfilled; — "awy amount" was 
 
 specified — he had committed sins enough already, he 
 
14 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 well knew, to wipe off the score for many years to 
 come, to say nothing of those which, in the common 
 course of events, must of necessity ensue. The dream 
 of unUmited riches, and unchecked and unbounded 
 pleasure, was intoxicating; but yet a something he 
 knew not how to define, prompted him to hesitate. At 
 this critical juncture a noise arose in the anti-room. 
 There was a war of words, amid which was heard the 
 voice of a marchand tailleiiVf (from whose ^'magasin" 
 poor Louis had been supplied with divers "habits, redin- 
 gottes, gilets," &c. &c. for which payment had been oft 
 and again demanded, and ever in vain,) loudly pre- 
 eminent. Threat had succeeded threat, and matters 
 were now approaching to a crisis. 
 
 "How much does the fellow want?" asked the gentle- 
 man in black. 
 
 "Three thousand livres," replied Louis. 
 
 "Pshaw! an insignificant trifle; call him in and pay 
 him — merely to get rid of his impertinence. — There 
 — throw your capote over the rest of the money — there 
 are five thousand." 
 
 "Your generosity overpowers me," exclaimed the 
 astonished Louis, taking up the pen, "There, Sir, I have 
 signed the paper." 
 
 "Good! (reading) 'Louis Desonges,' perfectly correct; 
 and there, my good friend, is the counterpart, signed by 
 myself: it's a singular hand, perhaps you may not be 
 able to decipher it; indeed my signature is frequently, 
 1 have been told, taken for that of some of your great 
 men. But no matter; if it answers their purpose I be- 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 15 
 
 lieve they don't care much for that, nor I either, to tell 
 you the truth. However I must be off, having a little 
 business just now to transact in London." 
 
 "Stop, my dear Sir," exclaimed Louis, whose fancy 
 being now relieved from the terrors of a jail, was once 
 more on the gui vive. "You promised me the recipe 
 for that perfume. We must not forget the ladies. 
 There's poor Adele suffers sadly from the head-ache; 
 
 — and the lovely Comtesse — and" 
 
 "Ah — I know what you would say," replied the gen- 
 tleman in black, interrupting him, and taking a black- 
 edged paper from the bundle, which he had again tied 
 up with black tape; "they are almost all fond of such 
 things. — There — you will find what they will think 
 inestimable recipes for perfumes, patches, rouge, dis- 
 tilled waters, and all that sort of thing. I am the ori- 
 ginal inventor of them all." 
 
 "The devil you are!" exclaimed Louis. 
 '^Precisely so. And let me tell you I have derived 
 no little advantage therefrom. Not that I began to 
 introduce them with that intent; for, to say the truth, 
 I had not then become so well acquainted with the fol- 
 lies and infatuation of mankind: but, the fact is, I hate 
 to see a lovely woman in her own undisguised charms 
 and beauty. She always reminds me of angels whose 
 existence I am anxious to forget. Some among you, 
 who have not yet adopted the use of my nostrums, still 
 preserve the form of beings whom I once saw in the 
 presence of one whom I dare not name.*' 
 
16 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 This allusion recalled poor Louis to his senses. He 
 shuddered at the bare recollection of what he had 
 done; and, clasping his hands together, lifted up his 
 eyes toward heaven, and fervently ejaculated, "OhI 
 Mon Dieu!" 
 
 When he turned to look for his sable companion, he 
 was gone. If he had been allowed time for reflection, 
 his thoughts would have been most painful; but a vio- 
 lent knocking at the door helped to awaken him from 
 his dream. The door burst open, and in stalked the 
 identical tailor, whose entree had been announced with 
 so much clamour. Louis had, almost unconsciously, 
 pocketed the five thousand livres, and his capote con- 
 cealing the rest of his riches, the scene appeared, to 
 the tailor's eye, as denuded and poverty-stricken as 
 usual. A young Frenchman (particularly if in Paris) 
 flies from grave to gay, with more volatility than any 
 other mortal; and Louis, having no fear of the law now 
 before his eyes, threw himself back in his chair, and, 
 with an air of gay defiance, demanded the intruder's 
 business. 
 
 "Look ye, Monsieur," replied the man of "shreds 
 and patches," "my mind is made up; I have two offi- 
 cers in the next room. I know where you were last 
 night, throwing away my money at rouge et noir, 
 among a parcel of demisoldes and pauvre diables.'* 
 
 "Never mind. Snip," said Louis, laughing; "good 
 luck must come at last, if we do but persevere." 
 
 "What! andyoujdare to insult me, too!" ejaculated 
 
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 the enraged tailor. "Come in, my friends, and do your 
 duty. There is your prisoner." 
 
 The officers advanced, like automata, mechanically 
 bowing to our hero, ere they made him captive. The 
 tailor at this moment took hold of the capote, and was 
 in the act of lifting it up, and exclaiming how much it 
 had cost him, when his attention was arrested by the 
 sight of a small portion only of Louis's wealth; but suf- 
 ficient to change entirely the character of his counte- 
 nance and tone. He let the capote drop, and fell back 
 against the wall, with looks of almost reverential awe 
 and dismay, stammering a thousand apologies. 
 
 "If you've made out your bill. Sir," said Louis, in a 
 most dignified style, "write a receipt." Then throw- 
 ing a louis to each of the officers, he continued, — 
 "Pray, gentlemen, accept that trifle for the trouble 
 this fool of a bourgeois has occasioned you. I wished 
 only to make him wait a little while for his money, as 
 a punishment for his impertinence, and the infamous 
 manner in which he has frequently made my clothes, 
 and kept me waiting till the last moment, when I was 
 going to a party." They bowed— looked at each 
 other — bowed again; — and, bowing, retreated back- 
 ward, as though from the presence of Majesty, till the 
 door was safely gained. The tailor advanced, in the 
 same lowly attitude; wrote the "acquit," as well as he 
 was able; made another humble apology; received his 
 money, and bowed himself backward, after his quon- 
 dam associates. 
 B 2 
 
18 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 Left to himself, Louis hummed a tune from the last 
 new opera; reflected that what was done could not be 
 undone; and concluded it was, therefore, not worth 
 while to reflect at all. To keep all clear for next 
 year, he resolved to go and commit his moment of sin 
 immediately. Where he went, or what he did, has 
 not been recorded, but it is most certain that there 
 was no complaint of his not having duly fulfilled his 
 contract for many years afterward. 
 
 About the same time that this adventure occurred 
 to Louis Desonges, at Paris, there was a young gentle- 
 man in the city of London, whose father, dying, left 
 behind him a considerable sum of ready money, beside 
 a flourishing West India trade, by strict attention to 
 which his fortune had been amassed. Charles Max- 
 well was just of age. He had received a good educa- 
 tion, in the first place, from his father, and afterwards 
 a very handsome allowance, by which he was enabled 
 to keep what is called good society, whilst the old gen- 
 tleman stuck close to the counting-house and the Ex- 
 change, and kept "all right." 
 
 But when he died, his son, taking a wider range, 
 neglected the business, and left the whole of his mer- 
 cantile affairs to his clerks; and the consequence was, 
 that in less than two years he was on the eve of figur- 
 ing in the Gazette. 
 
 At this critical juncture, too, he had fallen in love; a 
 
 contingency which, if it had occurred somewhat earlier, 
 
 III might possibly have made him more careful of his own 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. - 19 
 
 concerns, and saved him from the temptation which 
 awaited him. In sad and sober mood, he sat occupied 
 in a manner to which he had been but httle accus- 
 tomed, namely, in melancholy contemplation, in his 
 own private counting-house, when the gentleman of 
 whom we have already spoken, suddenly made his ap- 
 pearance, with his black coat, waistcoat, inexpressi- 
 bles, and stockings, black cloak, black bag, black- 
 edged papers, tied with black tape, black smelling- 
 bottle, snuff-box and blackguard, in the same style as 
 when he visited the poor law student at Paris, not 
 forgetting the needful black pocket-book, and long 
 elastic black silk purse. A similar scene took place to 
 that which befell the young Frenchman, excepting that 
 Charles Maxwell's decision was accelerated by the ar- 
 rival of a lot of "-returned acceptances," in lieu of one 
 long tailor's bill. It were hard to say whether the 
 English or the French gentleman was most elated by 
 his sudden accumulation of wealth, and unexpected 
 escape from disgrace. 
 
 One dreamed of horses, dogs, wines, houses, &C. &c., 
 the other, of operas, dancers, rouge et noir, titles, &c. 
 (fee. One resolved to forsake the counting-house; the 
 other resolved to forsake the law; thereby clearly 
 evincing that the heart of neither was engaged in the 
 pursuit for which he had been destined, — a fact which 
 perhaps it would have been better if their parents 
 could have ascertained, ere they had 
 
20 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 "Bound them to that oar, 
 Which thousands, once lashed fast to, quit no more.'' 
 
 When the bargain was concluded between young 
 Charles and his new ally, he politely asked him to stay 
 and dine with him. "Excuse the liberty I take," — and 
 he rang the bell, which was immediately answered by 
 a footman. Dinner was ordered, and a wondering 
 clerk despatched to his no less wondering bankers, with 
 the sum of one hundred thousand pounds, and a verbal 
 message, that he had received their note, and should 
 not trouble them for the "discounts" mentioned yester- 
 day. A dinner tete-a-teie, passed off delightfully be- 
 tween the new acquaintances. The gentleman in black 
 drank his wine freely, and bottle after bottle of the 
 old supernaculum appeared and disappeared with mar- 
 vellous celerity. Charles talked of what he would do, 
 and wdicre he would go; and how he would astonish 
 the natives, and purchase an estate in the country, and 
 buy himself into parliament; whereat the dark gentle- 
 man gave a singular proof of his satisfaction, which, 
 had it not been that "wine worketh wonders," would 
 probably have broken up their party.^ 
 
 "What is that moving and rustling about behind you, 
 under your cloak?" exclaimed Charles, gazing stupidly, 
 as a drunken man often does when staring at something 
 going on before him which he cannot exactly under- 
 stand. 
 
 "Oh! it's only my tail, which I'm wagging, replied 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 21 
 
 his guest, "it's a way we have whenever w^e are very 
 much pleased." 
 
 ''Oho! old gentleman!" observed Charles, "then you 
 enjoy yourself, ehl you take my jokes, eh? you're a bit 
 of a wag, eh?" 
 
 "Yes," dryly replied his companion, "I wag my tail." 
 
 "It's monstrously droll," added Charles, hiccupping; 
 "but the fact is, my comical, old Mr. What-d'ye-call- 
 em, we have many ways, almost as whimsical, among 
 ourselves." 
 
 "If you object to my custom ?'' said the gentle- 
 man of the black, rustling cloak, bowing politely — 
 
 "Oh, by no means," replied Charles, "sport your 
 opossum as you please; only, none of your long t-a-l-e-s. 
 Ha! ha! A devihsh pleasant conceit! isn't, old boy; come 
 fill your glass. I always hated lo7}g stories; don't 
 you?" 
 
 "Why, not precisely so," answered the other, filling 
 his glass; "for the fact is, that I invented them." 
 
 About this time it w^as, that Charles's speech began 
 to announce that he was "overtaken;" and he never 
 could remember how or when he and his sable ally 
 parted. Something there was floating in his recollec- 
 tion next morning about having been in the streets, 
 and of a row; and a sort of a mill; — but the particulars 
 he could not recall. The black smelling-bottle, in the 
 black ebony case, instantly dispersed the unpleasant 
 effects of his late debauch; but it was not intended to 
 enable him to reflect clearly on the past. 
 
22 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 The next morning he paced his room, after break- 
 fast, endeavouring to settle within his own mind, some 
 plan of operation, by which he might reap the most 
 perfect enjoyment from the golden harvest before him. 
 From this reverie he was aroused by the entrance of 
 his late father's confidential clerk, with an arm-full 
 and a bag-full of papers. Charles noticed the honest 
 anxiety expressed in his countenance, and at once re- 
 solved to make him happy. 
 
 "Take a seat, Mr. Ledger," said he, ^'I wished to see 
 you on business.-' 
 
 "Indeed, Sir," ejaculated the astonished clerk. 
 
 '•'Yes," indeed!" repeated Charles, seating himself at 
 the table, "for I'm off to Melton in an hour," 
 
 "My dear Sir," said Mr. Ledger, imploringly, "let me 
 entreat you. The supply you obtained yesterday was 
 most providential. I am delighted that you have yet 
 such friends left: but it must be repaid, and the con- 
 cerns of the house are, I am sorry to say " 
 
 "Confound the concerns of the house!" exclaimed 
 Charles. 
 
 "What do I hear!" ejaculated Ledger; "alas! alas! 
 my dear Sir, they are already confounded. And yet, 
 if we could but obtain assistance for a few months only, 
 and you would leave off drawing such heavy bills on 
 your private account " 
 
 "What, then," asked Charles, "do you really think 
 such a beggarly concern worth carrying on." 
 
 "Beggarly, Sir!" said Ledger, rising from his seat, 
 
THEGENTLEMANINELACK. 23 
 
 and all the blood in his body apparently rushing to his 
 
 face; "Sir! if any other person had dared -; but you 
 
 are his son Oh! that I should live to see the day! 
 
 My poor dear master! no man named him but with 
 respect." ♦ 
 
 Here the poor fellow was utterly overpowered, and 
 sinking, exhausted, on the chair, sobbed like a child. 
 Charles caught the infection, and looked at his father's 
 humble friend, with feelings far different from those 
 which the money now at his command was intended 
 by the donor to produce. He certainly was not, at 
 that moment, committing his stipulated quantum of sin. 
 
 "Mr. Ledger," said he, at length, "I most earnestly 
 entreat your pardon for having trifled with your feel- 
 ings; but the fact is, I have made up my mind" 
 
 "Oh, don't say so, my dear Sir," said the clerk, inter- 
 rupting him, from dread of the termination of his sen- 
 tence, "just look over these papers — and, if the loan 
 you obtained so miraculously can be continued but for 
 a few months — and you will only — in moderation — Sir 
 — pray don't take my freedom amiss — we may still go 
 on — and the profits are — have been — will be, I pledge 
 my word — ample — more than sufficient for all that any 
 gentleman could — that is, ought — don't be offended, I 
 entreat you, Sir." 
 
 "Not I," replied Charles, "I'm glad to hear you give 
 so good an accout of the concern, as you call it. For 
 my own part, it is no concern of mine now. If you 
 think it worth your acceptance, take it and welcome. 
 
24 T H E G E N T L E M A N I N B L A C K . 
 
 As for me, thank God — no — I don't exactly mean that 
 — but the fact is, I can do very well without it." 
 
 Poor Ledger's eyes and mouth were wide open, 
 though he doubted much if that could be the case with 
 his ears: but the reader shall not be troubled with an 
 attempt to describe his feelings. Suffice it to say, 
 that he would not accept more than a small share of 
 the profits, the remainder to be duly carried to the 
 credit side of his young master's account in the "pri- 
 vate leger." As a matter of course, he was to manage 
 the whole affair as he thought fit; and, as a matter of 
 course with Charles Maxwell, he troubled him not 
 with any more large drafts, nor asked for a farthing of 
 the profits; all which surprised and perplexed Mr. 
 Ledger, who endeavoured to account for the circum- 
 stance by supposing that the young man had discover- 
 ed some stock which his late father had privately in- 
 vested, or that some mining shares, which had been 
 put by as worthless, had turned up trumps; or that he 
 had got a prize in the lottery, or — in short he could 
 not exactly make it out. So he dipped his pen in the 
 inkstand, and stuck to his desk; consoling himself with 
 the reflection, that he was preparing a haven in which 
 his young master and benefactor might find shelter, 
 whenever he should be driven in by the storm. 
 
 It has been already stated that Charles Maxwell 
 was in love, and stated too upon his own authority. 
 He said so, he thought so — and yet vvhen riches poured 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 25 
 
 in upon him as a flood, he went to Melton first — then 
 came to London, and 
 
 Ran each extreme of folly through, 
 And lived with half the town, 
 
 yet never allowed his mind to dwell upon the charms 
 of Clara Haultaught, the old Admiral's daughter, with 
 whom he had danced and fallen in love, all in the re- 
 gular way, at a Leicester "county" ball. The fact is, 
 he had no time, fpr men of pleasure never have, "pro- 
 vided always," as the lawyers have it, that they are 
 provided always with money and health. When either 
 of these fall short, your mere men of pleasure are sad 
 twaddlers, and have time enough to weary themselves 
 and their friends by all manner of wearisome ways, 
 and ill-supported pretensions. Which position should 
 any reader doubt, let him go to Bath and learn 
 wisdom. 
 
 To travel abroad gives a man an air, say some folks, 
 and Charles Maxwell went off, therefore, to breathe 
 and bring home some foreign air. Here it may be as 
 w^ell to observe, by way of avoiding difficulties here- 
 after, that the time of which we write was some year 
 or two before the revolution, so called, as the French 
 say, "par excellence," because it was the vilest, the 
 most sanguinary, and the most fearful and extensive in 
 its consequences, of any on the records of either an- 
 cient or modern history. The reader need scarcely be 
 c 
 
26 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 told it is the French revolution of 1790 to which we 
 allude. 
 
 Charles, of course, went first to Paris, and there, 
 almost of course, became acquainted with Louis De- 
 songes; for it was barely possible that two young men, 
 possessing the unlimited command of money, however 
 different might be their habits, should not come into 
 contact when pursuing some of the innumerable follies 
 and pleasures of that most foolish and pleasurable me- 
 tropolis. 
 
 When an Englishman is in Paris, whatever may be 
 his natural taste or propensity, he must see every 
 thing; and, with this laudable spirit of inquiry, Charles 
 Maxwell betook himself to a notorious gambling-house, 
 though he had not the smallest taste for such amuse- 
 ments. Louis Desonges happened to be there at the 
 time, and was interesting himself as much in the game 
 as a man could possibly do to whom it was perfectly 
 immaterial whether he lost or won. The air of gayety 
 and nonchalance with which he paid several heavy 
 losses attracted the Englishman's attention, and after a 
 few minutes they betted together, won, lost, paid and 
 received immense sums, with such utter carelessness 
 and good humour, as astonished each other, and made 
 the bystanders imagine that their bets were fictitious, 
 and made for some sinister, though (strange to say 
 among Parisian adepts) undiscernable purpose. Under 
 this impression all play was at a stand; and Charles, 
 after exchanging cards with his new friend, walked oflf 
 
THEGENTLEMANIN BLACK. 27 
 
 with bills to the amount of about two million and a 
 half of livres, that is, in English money, about a hun- 
 dred thousand pounds, leaving his antagonist without 
 the smallest symptom of "desespoir,^^ so common to all, 
 but more particularly to French gamesters. The next 
 morning Charles felt, that, nowithstanding the young 
 Frenchman's gayety and admirable presence of mind 
 the preceding night, the loss of such a sum must be his 
 utter ruin; and, therefore, with the most philanthropic 
 intention of restoring his winnings by making some 
 foolish bet, he ordered his coachman to driv^e to the 
 Rue do rUniversite, where he found the young gam- 
 bler at home, in his own most splendid hotel. The whole 
 affair — lamps — silken curtains, sofas and chairs — the 
 silken silence of the servants — statues — paintings — 
 books in the most splendid bindings ranged in battalia, 
 while some half dozen were thrown carelessly on the 
 floor, like the most exquisitely dressed among the brave 
 after an engagement, — all — all — breathed of wealth. 
 "Good Heavens!" exclaimed Charles, "and /, for the gra- 
 tification of a mere whim, for /have not the excuse of 
 other men, have perhaps destroyed this young man's hap- 
 piness forever — his father's gray hairs — his poor portion- 
 less sisters — thrown, like young unfledged birds, from the 
 genial warmth of their parent's downy nest, upon the 
 sharp rocks of this world, while the bleak winds of 
 
 adversity" 
 
 The entrance of Louis Desonges here saved him the 
 trouble of completing his picture. Not a vestige of 
 
28 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 nocturnal, involuntary vigilance, shaded his handsome 
 and intelligent countenance. His eye sparkled with 
 pleasure at the sight of his new acquaintance, but it 
 was unclouded by the unsteady brow that rises and 
 falls, and will tell, as if in spite of its owner, how the 
 gamester's heart throbs, and warms, and grows cold. 
 The fact was, Louis saw before him a rich young English- 
 man, a character with which he had long wished to be 
 acquainted; but from their habitual reserve, (such, be 
 it remembered, was then our national character,) had 
 ever been foiled in the attempt. He rushed across the 
 room, and warmly shook Charles by the hand. 
 
 "He estimates my motive for coming," thought the 
 latter; "'tis well!" 
 
 "Have you breakfasted, so early?" asked Louis, gayly. 
 
 "No, my good Sir," was the reply; the fact is, that 
 my mind was somewhat uneasy about the affair of last 
 night. You excuse my bluntncss, I trust, but we 
 English" 
 
 "Are strange fellows; I've always understood so. I 
 want to see more of you; — allons a dejeuner! — Ho! 
 Auguste! Roderique! — Who waits there? — Is breakfast 
 ready?" 
 
 Our heroes were ushered, by a petit-maitre out of 
 livery, through a suite of rooms, adorned with an in- 
 attention to expense truly wonderful, until they ar- 
 rived at a saloon, opening into a garden, from whence 
 the perfumed air, and the light of heaven, were scien- 
 tifically allowed admittance through verandas, Vene- 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 29 
 
 lian blinds, lace and muslin curtains, &c. &c. In 
 brief, all was "superbe et magnifique." 
 
 "Are you yet Frenchman enough to take our light 
 wines at breakfast?" asked Louis, as soon as they were 
 seated. 
 
 "When we are at Rome " replied Charles. 
 
 "Precisely so," said Louis, "it's my way." 
 
 "He has not lost his appetite," thought Charles. 
 
 "You don't eat, my dear Sir," observed Louis; — 
 
 "allow me my cook is generally thought to excel. — 
 
 Are these kidnies in champagne, Pierre? 
 
 "Oui, Monsieur!" replied a powdered lacquey, mak- 
 ing a low obeisance. Louis recommended, and Charles 
 ate; and Charles recommended, and Louis drank; nei- 
 ther caring about their health, which was secured to 
 them by their mutual friend; and each possessing, un- 
 known to the other, a wonderful black cut-glass bottle, 
 in a black ebony case. Charles's motive was to make 
 the young Frenchman drunk; and then to return him 
 his money, and make him believe he had won it: while 
 Louis, having now caught a rich young Englishman in 
 his own house, was determined to understand the real 
 character of the nation to which he belonged; and, im- 
 primis, to ascertain how much one of them could eat 
 and drink at a "dejeune a la fourchette." 
 
 The champagne sparkled and disappeared, and 
 Charles found courage to allude to the affair of the 
 preceding evening. Louis smiled and said it was no- 
 thing. 
 
 c 2 
 
30 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 "Pardon me, my dear Sir," observed Charles, drawing 
 his chair closer; "such a sum must be something to any 
 body." 
 
 "Don't mention it," said Louis; "I shall never miss it; 
 and am glad it has fallen into such hands as your's." 
 
 "I'll bet you double the sum it's more than you are 
 nov^r worth in the world," said Charles, bluntly, after 
 swallowing a half-pint bumper. 
 
 "Done!" exclaimed Louis. 
 
 "Done!" replied Charles. The servants were order- 
 ed out of the room; and Louis, going to a secretaire, 
 which stood in a recess, returned immediately, and 
 threw more than the needful amount upon the table. 
 Charles was astonished, and was about to pay, when a 
 sudden thought struck him, and he hesitated. 
 
 "Never mind," said Louis, "pay me when you like; 
 or never: it is of no consequence." 
 
 "On honour^ let me ask," said Charles; "is that pile of 
 gold your own*?" 
 
 "It is," replied Louis, "I have made it a rule never 
 to feel offended at any remarks a loser may make. 
 There's my hand, and my honour pledged. Few can 
 bear to lose so well as I can. Indeed it would be strange 
 if they could." 
 
 "Then it only remains for me to pay," observed 
 Charles, calmly; and he took out his black morocco 
 leather pocket-book for that purpose, while Louis re- 
 placed the money which he had taken from the secre- 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 31 
 
 taire, and brought from thence a certain specific for 
 the dizziness which he found collecting in his head. 
 
 "I believe you'll find all right," said Charles. 
 
 "xVo doubt," replied the other, carelessly; but I'd 
 rather you should have won, by Saint Louis!" he then 
 thought within himself, — "I've heard much of English 
 riches and prodigality, but this surpasses all I could 
 have imagined;" and he applied the nostrum to his 
 nose. 
 
 "What do I see?" cried Charles, feeling that his own 
 lay safely at the bottom of his pocket. "Where did 
 you get that bottle?' 
 
 "It was given me by a a friend; I'll bet you 
 
 double that sum upon the table, that there is not it's 
 fellow in France." "Done," and "done," said each; 
 and Charles produced his black bottle. They were ex- 
 amined, compared, and smelt too. 
 
 "I have lost," said Louis; "it's very odd;" and went 
 again to the inexhaustible escrutoire for payment. 
 Charles rolled the mass of papers together, and squeez- 
 ed them into the black morocco pocket-book, aforesaid, 
 which caught the eye of Louis, and caused him in his 
 turn, to exclaim, "where did you get that black mo- 
 rocco book?" 
 
 ^_J "Where I got this black elastic silk purse," replied 
 Charles; beginning to haul out his riches, as sailors do 
 a cable. The secret was out. The two unfortunate 
 young men snuffed up the contents of their two black 
 cut-glass bottles, in two black ebony cases, till their 
 
32 TJlE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 heads were cleared from the effects of the wine; and 
 then sat themselves down to compare notes, and swear 
 an everlasting friendship. 
 
 "Do you know what to do with that money on the 
 table?" asked Louis as they were going out; "you know 
 that was no part of your compact, and, consequently, 
 will not vanish at night, as that which is left out of 
 what we demand during the day always does. That 
 sum you won from me, and when it changes hands, you 
 know " 
 
 "A good idea!" exclaimed Charles, "it's the only 
 money I ever won at play, and 1 didn't consider the 
 difference. I see no reason why we should spare our 
 dark acquaintance. Let me see? — Oh! I have it. Ex- 
 cuse me, I'll only write a few lines, and send off the 
 pacquet directly." Accordingly he indited the first 
 letter of business with which he had ever troubled Mr. 
 Ledger, and enclosed therein nearly five hundred 
 thousand pounds sterling. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 At the moment when Charles had folded up the 
 letter to Mr. Ledger, a servant in livery opened the 
 door, and stood respectfully bowing, as though waiting 
 his master's commands. "What the devil brings you 
 here?" asked Louis. 
 
 "I beg your pardon, Sir," said the man bending al- 
 most to the ground, *^I thought you rang." 
 
 "Not I," replied Louis, "so take yourself ofK" 
 
 "Perhaps,'' observed the party-coloured gentleman, 
 as he sidled obsequiously toward Charles, ^'Monsieur 
 might have" 
 
 "Oh, ah! very true," Charles observed, carelessly, 
 "with your leave, my dear Sir, I'll get your man to 
 take this letter to the post." 
 
 The footman bowed, and was in the act of receiving 
 the letter from Charles, when Louis suddenly started 
 up, and knocked it out of his hand, exclaiming, "You 
 abominable old rascal! Take up the letter, Maxwell, 
 and put it into your pocket. And now, look at this 
 long-tailed, periwigged, powdered fellow, and say if 
 you have ever seen him before." 
 
 Charles instantly recognised his friend "autrefois," in 
 
34 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 black, and joined Louis in violent invectives against 
 such sneaking, unhandsome, ungentleman-like conduct; 
 whereat the aforesaid gentleman declared that he 
 considered himself extremely ill-used by the appropria- 
 tion of such a sum to the service of Mr. Ledger, a per- 
 son with whom he had no sort of acquaintance or con- 
 cern. The young friends were, however, too much 
 elated at the idea of having outwitted the old fellow, to 
 give way an inch; and he, unwilling to quarrel with two 
 such promising youths, forbore to press the matter. 
 They, therefore, sat down together in friendly chat, 
 and he expressed a hope that their wishes had been 
 complied with, and that all had gone on pleasantly and 
 according to the strict letter of the compact *'lf not," 
 he continued, ^'let me know, now I am here, and I will 
 see to it — as my servants do not always act precisely 
 as I could wish, during my absence." 
 
 "Then they are somewhat 'like ours," said Louis; 
 "there's always something left undone about my place, 
 though 1 keep so many that I don't know the faces of 
 half of them. It's the greatest wonder in the world 
 that I looked at yours." 
 
 *'You cannot keep too many," repUed the middle- 
 aged gentleman; "I like people to keep plenty of livery 
 servants; let them Hve well, have high wages and but 
 little to do. That's the proper style, Sir, for me; I " 
 
 "By the way," said Louis, "talking of livery servants 
 — let me tell you that 1 do not think it is altogether 
 
THEGENTLEMANIN BLACK. 35 
 
 decorous for you to be sitting here, talking to two gen- 
 tlemen, in such a dress as you now wear." 
 
 "Precisely so," replied the old gentleman, '-as you 
 
 justly observe, it is hardly correct, and so ," and, 
 
 rising up, he stood awhile upon one leg, and began to 
 move round thereon, in a sort of pirouette, first slowly, 
 and then gradually increasing in velocity, until no part 
 of the man was completely visible: then, the spinning 
 as gradually subsided, till, by degrees, there appeared 
 to the wondering friends, the identical black Geneva 
 cloak, black bag, coat, waistcoat, &c., &c., which had 
 formerly riveted their attention: and forthwith their 
 sable friend sprang over the back of a chair, and seat- 
 ed himself therein, with the most perfect and gentle- 
 manly nonchalance. 
 
 "Bravo! bravo! well done, old boy!" exclaimed Louis. 
 *'l wish you'd give some of our opera dancers a lesson." 
 
 **I have,'' replied the gentleman in black. 
 
 "Good," said Charles, "I believe you. But you must 
 be fatigued after your exertion; won't you take some 
 refreshment. " 
 
 "With much pleasure," answered he of the sables. 
 Come," and he helped himself to a half-pint bumper of 
 champagne, "let us take a friendly glass together. 
 This buries all animosities. I couldn't help feeling a 
 little sore at the idea of a man of business — a plodding, 
 humdrum sort of fellow, having that money — I like 
 your idle, careless, negligent, or dashing sort of fellows 
 best. But never mind, perhaps it may lead him to 
 
36 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 speculate. Allow me — ^you don't help yourself—- there 
 — I like your English fashion of drinking best. Come, 
 Sir, the bottle stands with you." 
 
 "What in the world are you thinking about?" said 
 Charles, "It is scarcely one o'clock! Nobody thinks of 
 drinking at such an hour." 
 
 "What signifies what other people think?" replied 
 the gentleman of the black bottle; "I am particularly 
 partial to the custom of drinking early in the day. 
 Nothing can be more ridiculous than the present 
 fashion of fasting all day, and then dining at what used 
 to be the cheerful supper hour. Pshaw! You take 
 about half a dozen glasses of wine; and then, just at 
 the instant you begin to enjoy yourself, coffee is an- 
 nounced, and you creep off to bed. Now, my dear 
 Sir, — but come, fill your glasses, my dear fellows! 
 Just, for once, oblige me. I am really excessively 
 thirsty; and, on honour, M. Le Baron, considering that 
 I am now your guest, and that your country fashions 
 are not decidedly against the custom; and, moreover, 
 as French politesse is proverbial among all the nations 
 of the earth, I trust you will not object." 
 
 "Excellently urged," observed Charles Maxwell, 
 who began somewhat to enjoy the whim of the thing; 
 "aliens, my dear friend, allow the old fellow to indulge 
 his odd humours for once. It can't be of much conse- 
 quence. What need we to care for appearances and 
 what other people think." 
 
 "Truly," replied Louis, "1 know not why indeed." 
 
THEGENTLEMANIN BLACK. 37 
 
 "Then, Sir," said the gentleman in black, who now 
 assumed a generalship over a range of black bottles 
 which he had summoned into the room, "we will begin 
 our sitting. In the first place, I beg to observe that, 
 as wine makes a man happy, the earlier he begins to 
 drink after he rises, the more happiness falls to his lot, 
 as he has then all the day before him, to be enjoyed in 
 high spirits and an utter emancipation from care, and 
 that abominable nuisance called thought. So here 
 goes! my dear boys. Excuse me — empty your glass — 
 I'm a great stickler for forms in drinking. No day- 
 light in the first instance, and no heel-taps in the se- 
 cond. That's my way. Hem! Perhaps I may have 
 seemed somewhat prolix on this occasion: but, the fact 
 is, I cannot endure to see a man pass the bottle. It is, 
 in my opinion, the acme, or rather, perhaps, the bathos 
 of low and ill breeding. If there be anything more 
 ungentlemanlike, it is the conduct of a president who 
 suffers anything of thq sort, without inflicting bumper 
 fines." 
 
 "Upon my word, Sir," said Charles, "You are be- 
 come very arbitrary." 
 
 "Perhaps it may appear so," repHed the gentleman 
 in black, "at all events I have talked more than is my 
 wont. But I hope never to see the day when it shall 
 be considered rude to press a gentleman to take his 
 wine. Monsieur Desonges, the bottle stands with you, 
 and you are wanted. What in the world are you think- 
 ing about?" 
 
38 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "I beg your pardon, gentlemen!** exclaimed Louis, 
 *'I was up late last night, and really " 
 
 *'Pshaw!" said the gentleman in black, "You are 
 half asleep — here — take a pinch of my genuine — it 
 will rouse you," then, handing his blackguard to the 
 Frenchman, he whispered in Charles's ear, *'These 
 Monsieurs are poor creatures when compared with 
 you English. And then their wines — What are they? 
 The flavour is very well, to be sure: but, by all that's 
 dusky! one might drink a hogshead for any eifect it 
 would have on such heads as yours and mine. No, 
 my dear Sir, there's nothing like your English port, 
 black and strong — Eh?" 
 
 "I don't like that snuff," said Louis, returning the 
 box, "blackguard does not exactly s^iit me." 
 
 "Then try this," quoth he of the black Geneva 
 cloak, taking from his pocket a curiously carved 
 "sneezer," made from Vesuvian lava. "It is a mixture 
 which I have lately introduced, and which appears 
 iikely to become a favourite among your rising men, 
 though the old courtiers think it somewhat too strong." 
 
 Louis, after a violent fit of sneezing, exclaimed, 
 "strong, indeed?" 
 
 "It seems well calculated," observed Charles, "to 
 prevent a man from going to sleep." 
 
 "Precisely so," replied the gentleman in black, "It 
 is a mixture of Paris black rappee and hellebore, and 
 just now in great request among the deputies here." 
 
 The trio now "set in" for a regular drinking bout, 
 
THEGENTLEMANINELACK. 39 
 
 in which it is almost unnecessary to say the gentleman 
 in black was too much for the two young men. As 
 usual on such occasions, they came to high words, and 
 Charles flatly accused the president of a breach of pro- 
 mise. 
 
 "It is of no use to contradict me," said he, '*I remem- 
 ber your words as plainly as possible — as though it 
 were but yesterday. We were taking our wine after 
 dinner, when you dined with me in the City, and you 
 appeared highly pleased with the flavour of a bin 
 which I called my supernaculum: and you promised, 
 I'll take my oath of it!" 
 
 *•! beg you will do nothing of the sort," ejaculated 
 the gentleman in black, "I particularly object to such 
 customs — besides, among gentlemen, they cannot be 
 necessary. And, now I think of it, I seem to have 
 some faint recollection — but, you know, we took a 
 
 great deal of wine that day, and, perhaps but, I 
 
 beg your pardon, the bottle stands with you." 
 
 **I see your drift," said Charles, filling his glass boldly, 
 *'but allow me to tell you, old boy, that, if we were to 
 sit here from this time till to-morrow, I'll not be driven 
 from the point. You did, then and there, faithfully 
 promise me, that one bin in my cellar should always 
 be filled with that identical sort of wine." 
 
 "Sir," replied the gentleman in black, "I now per- 
 fectly recollect the circumstance, and feel perfectly 
 astonished at your having any cause of complaint, as I 
 gave the necessary orders to a London wine-merchant, 
 
40 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 with whom I have long been on terms of intimacy. 
 Our transactions together have been numerous, and 
 generally conducted in a manner perfectly satisfactory 
 to both parties." 
 
 "My dear Sir," said Charles, "the wine was no more 
 like my o/c? supernaculum, than you are like my grand- 
 mother." 
 
 "Bah!" replied the gentleman in black, "Was your 
 wine old?" 
 
 "Certainly it was," Charles answered, "very old; I 
 know not how old; and, yet, full of body and flavour. — 
 You must remember it." 
 
 "Then, Sir," calmly observed the gentleman in black, 
 "the case is completely altered, and you have no right 
 to complain. The bin, it seems, has been filled accord- 
 ing to agreement. But you, my dear Sir, as an English- 
 man and a wine drinker — the bottle stands with you — 
 you must be perfectly aware that it is utterly out of 
 even my power, to make new wine taste like old." 
 
 Somewhat of the same sort was ungallantly said by 
 the gentleman in black, respecting the knowledge of 
 ladies' minds and tastes, when defending himself against 
 a charge made by Louis, concerning the non-fulfilment 
 of some promises, made to him, of success in certain 
 adventures of the heart. Our two heroes, indeed, 
 could not fail to observe, that there was a peculiar 
 acerbity and testiness about their elderly friend, when- 
 ever ladies were the topic of conversation. They, there- 
 fore, purposely introduced the subject of matrimony, 
 
TH E GENTLEMAN IN B LAC K. 41 
 
 vhereupon his saturnine complexion assumed a hue 
 nany degrees dingier than usual. He uttered a vio- 
 lent philippic against the married life in general, and 
 then went into a lamentation concerning the extreme 
 folly of certain of his own friends in particular, who, 
 instead of enjoying themselves and the various plea- 
 sures which had previously been at their disposal, had 
 foolishly become heads of families; "and now," he con- 
 tinued, "they live in the most miserable hum-drum 
 way you can conceive, canting about virtue, and do- 
 mestic duties, and such nonsense. I assure you the cir- 
 cumstance gives me an infinite deal of uneasiness. I 
 have represented the thing to your Chambers here, 
 and have some hopes — but, I beg your pardon, the 
 bottle stands with you — I have some hopes that the 
 detestable rite will be abolished in this country. No- 
 thing can be more ridiculous and tyrannical than that, 
 because two people happen to like each other at any 
 particular period, they should, therefore, be compelled 
 to spend all their lives together. It is really the height 
 of absurdity." 
 
 "Let us talk of something else," said Charles, whose 
 thoughts were wandering into Leicestershire. 
 
 "Pray, old Monsieur Vaubrien," hiccuped Louis, 
 "were you ever in Jove?" 
 
 "Bah!" exclaimed the gentleman in black, "What 
 
 does that signify! I was never married, I can tell you 
 
 that. Hem! The bottle stands with you." 
 
 "And the question stands with vou," observed Charles, 
 D 2 
 
42 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 *' What objection can you possibly have to answering it? 
 Do you think it probable that either my friend or I 
 should attempt to rival you, or fall in love with any 
 *chere amie' of yours?" 
 
 "Nothing more likely," replied the dark gentleman; 
 and withal a sardonic grin and a certain twinkling about 
 the eyes, gave a peculiar expression of vivacity to the 
 speaker's countenance as he continued, ever and anon 
 helping himself to a pinch of blackguard, ^'Nothing is 
 more probable. But, my dear fellows, don't imagine 
 that I can possibly be jealous. I have not the smallest 
 objection, I assure you— nay, on the contrary, it would 
 afford me the greatest imaginable delight; if it were 
 only to see what sort of figure you would make. — 1 
 jealous, indeed! Ha! ha! ha! I like the idea exceed- 
 ingly! I jealous! Ha! ha! ha!" and the dingy old beau 
 looked round him with a most superb expressioji of self- 
 conceit. 
 
 "Why you abominable old hoary compound of vani- 
 ty!" exclaimed Louis, "you don't mean to insinuate that 
 any lady to whom it is likely that either of us should 
 pay our devoirs, can possibly have admitted you as a 
 suitor!" 
 
 "But indeed, I do," replied the gentleman in black, 
 firmly. "Aye, and in this 'our good city of Paris' too: 
 and let me tell you, that at this very moment, there 
 are more than one or two to whom my society and con- 
 vei'sation are more than commonly agreeable." 
 
 "Name them!" cried Charles. 
 
THEGENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 43 
 
 **Aye, name, name! Let us come to the point!" 
 ejaculated Louis. 
 
 **With all my heart," replied the black boaster, 
 rapping his black rappee and hellebore, "I have no 
 nonsensical squeamish objections on that head. I hate 
 a fellow that hesitates about introducing a lady's 
 name over a glass of wine among friends. Come! Fill 
 your glasses! Here's a bumper to the lovely, accom- 
 plished and adorable # # « * " 
 
 **You infernal old coxcomb!" exclaimed Louis. 
 
 "Precisely so," replied the gentleman in black. 
 
 *'A lady of her rank and beauty!" cried Charles. 
 
 "Precisely so," was again the reply. "And now," 
 continued the dark old reprobate, "as my presence is 
 particularly necessary just now in the Palais Royal, 
 and we have taken precisely wine enough, it may be 
 as well to save time; and so " 
 
 "Here he stooped down and fumbled awhile in his 
 black bag, which stood, as usual, between his knees. 
 
 "Ah — hem — yes — there they are," and he threw a 
 score of cards upon the table, which were immediately 
 seized by the two young men, who forthwith became 
 excessively indignant at the appearance of certain 
 names thereon. But all the reply they could obtain 
 from the gentleman in black was, "Precisely so;" after 
 repeating which some half dozen times, he politely 
 took leave, kicked his black bag through the window, 
 and jumped after it into the garden. 
 
 Now, as to the narpes of the ladies in question, we 
 
44 THEGENTLEMANINELACK. 
 
 can scarcely venture to give an opinion, because the 
 transaction occurred about the time of the Revolution, 
 when divers, even of the fair sex, did enact certain 
 parts which might lead one to suspect that they really 
 had permitted the occasional visits of the gentleman in 
 black. Otherwise we should say that the whole were 
 grossly slandered, inasmuch as it hath come to our 
 knowledge, that the aforesaid personage and his friends 
 do not scruple to traduce and speak familiarly of ladies, 
 of whom they know little or nothing. 
 
 Our own rule, and that which we should recommend 
 to all our readers, is never to give the smallest degree 
 of credit to the inuendos of such fellows. We utterly 
 disbelieve and despise all their assertions, in conse- 
 quence of our conviction that the degraded being, who 
 could be guilty of the meanness of boasting of a lady's 
 favour, would not hesitate at inventing lies. Assuredly 
 such men have been too much in company with the 
 gentleman in black; and we would rather believe them 
 capable of the most abominable falsehoods, than be in- 
 duced by their asseverations^ to doubt even for a mo- 
 ment, the propriety of any lady's conduct. 
 
 We are sorry to say that our two heroes had not 
 yet attained the same way of thinking. They read 
 and re-read the cards which the dark old rake had left 
 upon the table; and the consequence was, that, for 
 some months they remained in Paris, and sought for, 
 and found but too easily, introductions to his particular 
 friends, then residing in that city. 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 45 
 
 Their first exploils on the day in question were per- 
 formed, under the influence of wine, at the Palais 
 Royal, where they, apparently by accident, again en- 
 countered the gentleman in black, who politely invited 
 them to attend the meeting of a political club, at 
 which he was to preside that evening: but he did not 
 press them, being well aware how extremely improba- 
 ble it was that men who were in pursuit of pleasure, 
 and who had unbounded wealth at their command, 
 would be induced to enter into any engagements likely 
 to expose them to imprisonment and more fatal conse- 
 quences. He left them, therefore, to their own desires, 
 and was, by no means, displeased with the result. 
 But it is no part of our intended plan to enter into a 
 minute detail of scenes particularly agreeable to him: 
 and, indeed, if we were disposed so to employ our pen, 
 it would be a work of supererogation, seeing that they 
 are already much too well known. 
 
 When our heroes left Louis's hotel, in the Rue de 
 L'Universite, the room in which they had held their 
 symposium with their sable acquaintance was imme- 
 diately filled by divers well-dressed lacqueys, who ex- 
 pressed no small surprise at the number of empty bot- 
 tles which were scattered, in all directions, about the 
 floor. They had not seen the third, and probably the 
 greatest drinker of the party; and Louis's personal va- 
 let declared that his master could not possibly take 
 more than one bottle. They, of course, came to a 
 conclusion that the remaining three dozen and upward 
 
4G THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 must have been consumed by the Englishman. All 
 were struck with astonishment except an old gascon, 
 who coolly took up a snutF-box (left, as if by accident, 
 by the gentleman in black) and remarked, as he gave 
 it the preparatory tap, "Ohl three dozen is nothing 
 for an Englishman! He will take about the same 
 quantity again after dinner! and then begin drinking 
 brandy and water." He might have said more, but 
 was interrupted by a violent fit of sneezing, at the end 
 of which he felt an irresistible propensity to see if there 
 was any wine left upon the table. The Vesuvian 
 snuff-box was handed round, and produced precisely 
 the same effects on all the party; and in less time than 
 the circumstance takes in relating, they were seated 
 round the table, with a determination of not being out- 
 done by an Englishman. The result was precisely as 
 the gentleman in black intended, when he thought 
 proper to leave his black Paris rappee and hellebore. 
 They settled the affairs of the nation most luxuriously 
 among themselves that evening, and were all turned 
 adrift next morning, by their master, in a very fit 
 stale to form members of the political club before men- 
 tioned, at which the gentleman of the black-edged pa- 
 pers frequently presided. 
 
 We have related this trivial occurrence, because it 
 may, probably, in some degree, account for the gene- 
 ral mistake into which the French formerly fell, rela- 
 tive to the immense capacity of our wine-bibbing 
 countrymen. We have little doubt that, in most cases, 
 
THEGENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 47 
 
 wherein enormous quantities appeared to have been 
 consumed by one or two individuals, the gentleman in 
 black was at their elbow, with his black rappee and 
 hellebore, and probably some of his long tales and 
 abominable misrepresentations of the fair sex. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 Had it been our lot to have related the adventures 
 of our heroes about the time of their occurrence, we 
 should willingly have traced their progress, step by 
 step, among the lions of Paris, and throughout their 
 subsequent continental tour: but nozv, the Louvre, the 
 Jura, the Alps, Venice, the Vatican, and all the long 
 list of et ceteras, are "familiar in our ears as household 
 words;" and the reader would "skip" through the 
 pages containing descriptions thereof, as rapidly as the 
 modern traveller whirls past, in, or over the realities. 
 
 It was with some difficulty that Charles succeeded 
 in persuading Louis to accompany him: for the French- 
 man is not, like the Englishman, naturally, a travel- 
 ling animal. Though he has too much politeness to 
 make the affirmation, he is, generally, much of the 
 same way of thinking as the old Greeks and Romans, 
 who considered all nations but their own to be bar- 
 barians. 
 
 Louis's consent was faintly given to the plan of mi- 
 gration; and some weeks had been spent in delay, after 
 their route was arranged, when the two friends were 
 sitting together one morning at Charley's Hotel; and a 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 49 
 
 servant entered to announce a Mons. Bourreau, who 
 immediately, and without ceremony, entered the room. 
 
 There was a coarseness and abrupt famiharity about 
 this person, which, added to his vulgar appearance, 
 excessively annoyed the two young men of pleasure. 
 Charles politely inquired to what cause he might attri- 
 bute the honour of such a visit. 
 
 "It is no honour," replied Bourreau; and Charles 
 bowed in acquiescence. *'My visit," continued the 
 other, "is, perhaps, correctly speaking, to Mons. De- 
 songes." 
 
 "To me!" exclaimed Louis, "what the devil can you 
 want with me? some unpaid bill, I suppose; you should 
 have appHed to my cook, or butler, or coachman, or 
 whoever ordered the things of you. I always give 
 them money for such purposes at discretion." 
 
 "Sir!" replied the advocate of liberty and equality, 
 for such he was, notwithstanding his indignant feeling 
 at being mistaken for a tradesman, "I beg you to un- 
 derstand. Sir, that I did not come here to be insulted." 
 
 "Pshaw!" said Louis, testily, "your business?' 
 
 The advocate of liberty and equality hereupon be- 
 gan a speech, which had evidently been composed for 
 the occasion, and was much too prolix for repetition 
 here. He spake of the heavy burdens borne by the 
 people, the luxury and dissipation of the court and the 
 aristocracy, of the unjust abuse of the rights of man, 
 which were natural, physical and unalienable; "the 
 law's delay, the insolence of office," and "all the vari- 
 
50 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 ous ills that flesh is heir to;" the whole of which he at- 
 tributed to improper measures of government; and, at 
 length concluded with a piece of information, which 
 effectually roused Louis from the ennui into which he 
 was, in spite of his natural politesse, gradually sinking. 
 
 *^Your very extraordinary expenditure, Monsieur," 
 said Bourreau, "has attracted notice. This, Sir, is the 
 age of reason — the people see with the eyes of reason; 
 we judge and pronounce sentence on rational principles. 
 Your footsteps have been traced latterly. You inva- 
 riably lose at the gambling houses; you are extrava- 
 gant everywhere, and in debt nowhere; you have no 
 landed estates, nor can we learn that you have any 
 monies at interest. What remains then but to come 
 to the conclusion that you are one of the pensioners, 
 which, like locusts, are feeding upon the vitals of the 
 public?" 
 
 ''Capital!" exclaimed Charles Maxwell, "certainly! 
 he is a sinecurist. Excellent! and me. Monsieur? what 
 do you think of me? I conclude that, having been so 
 much with my friend, I must likewise have subjected 
 myself to your surveillance?" 
 
 ''Excuse me. Monsieur Anglais," replied Bourreau, 
 "we see only with the eye of reason; and your conduct, 
 as well as that of many of your countrymen, cannot be 
 accounted for upon any rational principles whatever." 
 
 During the last two minutes Louis had thought more, 
 than at any one period since we had the pleasure of 
 introducing him to the reader, when he was sitting, in 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 51 
 
 his solitary, ill-furnished room, in bodily fear of a tailor. 
 He now reflected on the immense sums which he had 
 expended, and in how unworthy a manner; and some- 
 thing like repentance crossed his mind at the miserable 
 and contemptible result. He had attracted the notice 
 of such wretches as Bourreau and his associates! with 
 such resources what might he not have achieved? His 
 country; the royal family; the government; all — all 
 were in difticulties, perhaps in a perilous situation! Thus 
 thought Louis: and immediately there opened to his 
 mind, a brilliant glimpse of what he might yet perform; 
 and good resolutions for the future, poured in upon him 
 in a manner which must have been exceedingly un- 
 pleasant to the gentleman in black; for, on the instant, 
 he opened the door and made his appearance with black 
 cloak, coat, waistcoat, bag, &c., &c., as heretofore. 
 
 After bowing politely to our heroes, he addressed 
 himself to the advocate of liberty and equality. 
 
 "Ah! mon cher Bourreau! This is an agreeable sur- 
 prise! by all that is fuliginous, I am delighted to meet 
 you this morning! Always upon the alert in the good 
 cause! eh? stirring betimes, notwithstanding the fa- 
 tigues of last night! eh? An exquisitely flaming speech 
 that of yours! a most glorious mystification! "Thoughts 
 that breathe and words that burn!" I could not have 
 done the thing better myself. But, entre nous, it was 
 excessively hot, so many people crowded together in 
 that small room; absolutely sulphureous — it was really 
 
52 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 almost too much for me. But, ''ca ira!'^ we shall have 
 little occasion to hide our heads much longer." 
 
 "Mais doucement? Monsieur Le President!" exclaim- 
 ed Bourreau, and he whispered that our heroes were 
 not among the initiated. 
 
 "Excuse me," replied the gentleman in black, speak- 
 ing out, "these two gentlemen are my particular 
 friends." 
 
 "Diable!" exclaimed Bourreau. 
 
 "Precisely so," said his associate,, tapping his snuff 
 box, and regaling himself from its blackguard contents 
 with peculiar zest. 
 
 "Est it possible!" continued Bourreau, with unfeign- 
 ed astonishment;" and yet you we^e one of the first to 
 recommend" 
 
 "That Monsieur's hotel should be ransacked," said 
 the gentleman in black. "Precisely so; what have zee 
 to dp with private friendships? You know we have 
 solemnly sworn that they shall not interfere with the 
 public good; and I, as president, am willing to convince 
 you that Pll not stick at trifles for the furtherance of 
 our great cause. Monsieur Desonges," he continued, 
 addressing himself to Louis, "I have the pleasure to in- 
 form you that a few of my particular friends are now 
 at your hotel." 
 
 "I am concerned to think f»hat I was not at home to 
 receive them," replied Louis. 
 
 "It is impossible that they can be there yet," said 
 
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THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 53 
 
 Bourreau, looking at his watch, "it wants a full hour 
 to the preparatory meeting." 
 
 "Excuse me, my dear friend," observed the black 
 . president, "for differing from you in opinion; but, the 
 fact is, that I accompanied them myself as far as the 
 door. I seldom go farther on such occasions. When 
 they have once crossed the threshold I can trust them 
 to act for themselves." 
 
 Monsieur Bourreau instantly seized his hat, pleaded 
 a most important engagement, which he had almost 
 forgotten, and took leave, with the same abruptness 
 with which he had made his entre. 
 
 Immediately his back was turned, the gentleman in 
 black coolly observed, "That fellow came with the in- 
 tention of frightening you out of some money. How- 
 ever, he'll be in time for the scramble." 
 
 "What scramble?" inquired Louis. 
 
 "At your hotel," was the reply. "Those fellows, of 
 whom I was speaking, are now hard at work, drinking, 
 and breaking up your furniture most charmingly, and 
 ransacking every corner, in hopes to find the proofs of 
 your connection with the court. Bah! what makes 
 you seem so much alarmed? The loss of a house can 
 be of no consequence to you." 
 
 "The devil take the house," exclaimed Louis. 
 
 "Precisely so," observed the gentleman in black; 
 "that would be quite correct." 
 
 . "I must go there instantly," said the young French- 
 man, "or those friends of yours will get possession of 
 
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54f THEGENTLEMANIN BLACK. 
 
 some — some documents,, which I would not, for the 
 world, — Maxwell, my dear fellow! order out one of 
 your carriages directly!" 
 
 "As you please," quoth the dark elderly gentleman; . 
 "however, if you have not an absolute desire to figure 
 away a la lanteme^ I should recommend you to drive 
 in a contrary direction." 
 
 "Your advice may be very prudent," repUed Louis, 
 "but as a man of honour, 1 cannot suffer those — certain 
 letters, from individuals of the highest respectability, to 
 fall into the hands of the canaille." 
 
 "Pshawl" observed the gentleman with the black 
 bag, wherein heimmediately began rummaging; "pshaw! 
 phoo! bagatelles! billet-doux! mere circulars! I know 
 what you mean. Hem! ha — " and he untied the black 
 tape which bound a pretty considerable number of 
 notes and letters together; "ah — there — ^just like these." 
 He then opened about half a score, and threw them 
 across the table. "I mean to give them all to a book- 
 seller whom I have in my eye, and have them publish- 
 ed;— I'm sure they'll sell." 
 
 "Why this," cried Louis, "is one of the notes which 
 1 locked up this morning in my escrutoire, from the 
 
 Comtesse !" 
 
 "And you must have stolen this from my desk!" ex- 
 claimed Charles; "it is impossible that I should be mis- 
 taken in that beautiful hand-writing. I'll take my 
 oath" 
 
THE GENTLEMAN INBLACK. 55 
 
 "Don't do that," said the dark antique lover, *'look 
 at the directions." 
 
 "What is this?" asked Charles, reading, "M. le Due 
 
 de , M. le Comte?" "M. le Marquis;" read Louis, 
 
 "M. le Baron, Son Altesse; what does all this mean? 
 Have you been housebreaking round Paris to collect 
 all these, or are you really capable of personating so 
 many different characters, and making women believe 
 ?" 
 
 "Precisely so," replied the gentleman in black, "I 
 hold that stratagems are fair both in love and war. 
 Indeed, with me, the two sciences arc the same, since 
 I always consider women, on whom I cannot make an 
 impression, as the worst and most powerful of my ene- 
 mies." 
 
 *'And those with whom you do succeed, seem, me- 
 thinks, to be treated in a strange manner," said Charles, 
 indignantly. "I really know not in what terms to ex- 
 press my opinion of your conduct, it is so mean, paltry, 
 cowardly, ungentlemanly, unfeeling, dishonourable, 
 cruel " 
 
 "Precisely so," replied the gentleman in black, with 
 perfect sang froid; "I do not deny it. But after all, 1 
 believe that, in similar cases, my plan is followed by 
 the generality of mankind. As I said before, love is 
 like war. Does a general, merely because he has 
 taken a town, sit himself down and reside there? Bah! 
 but you've already had my opinion of matrimony; and, 
 
56 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 as for any other ties — bah! they are preciously ridicu- 
 lous! Love, you know, 
 
 "At sight of human ties, 
 Flutters his wings, and, in a moment, flies." 
 
 It is a fact, upon my honour!" and here, as though 
 well pleased with the manner in which he had acquit- 
 ted himself, he had recourse to his Vesuvian repository 
 of black Paris rappee and hellebore. 
 
 He was not, however, even by his favourite topic of 
 speaking against the fair sex, to be diverted from the 
 main purport of his visit, which was to drive the two 
 young men from Paris. He was determined on this 
 point, because he perceived, in Louis, a lurking dispo- 
 sition to apply the means, placed at his disposal, in a 
 way which would be excessively unpleasant to his feel- 
 ings. He therefore recited a few anecdotes and reso- 
 solutions of the then embryo revolutionists, deputies, 
 triumviri, directeurs, republicans, friends of liberty, 
 &c. &c., which were well calculated to shake stronger 
 nerves than were possessed by either of his hearers. 
 The estimation in which Louis had held his billet- 
 doux was much diminished, by the discovery that they 
 were not so unique as he had imagined; and he, as usual 
 in such cases, began to conceive himself excessively 
 ill-used by the inditers. There was, however, a lin- 
 gering inclination within him, a something which 
 whispered him, not to leave Paris. IJe could not ex- 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 57 
 
 actly account for it; for he had not seen the fair Emi- 
 lie, nor her most perpendicular father, the Comte de 
 Tien a la Cour, for some months. 
 
 But the gentleman in black had a certain misgiving, 
 relative to the exact state of his mind; and, therefore, 
 left him not until he had completely bewildered his 
 brain in the mazes and mysteries of politics, and open- 
 ed to his view a state of things amply sufficient to 
 make any man, of a quiet and pleasure-loving disposi- 
 tion, desire to be "upon the move" from the scene of 
 action. 
 
 We have been told that this was the only instance 
 in which the gentleman in black was ever known to 
 take an active part in persuading a young man of 
 fashion and fortune to quit Paris. 
 
 To men provided with such black morocco pocket- 
 books, such long black elastic silk purses, such black 
 snufT-boxes, and such black cut glass bottles in such ' 
 black ebony cases, little preparation was necessary for 
 a journey; therefore, our heroes made up their minds 
 to dine quietly at home, at Charley's Hotel; then to 
 take a farewell lounge round the Palais Royal, and to 
 depart on the following morning. 
 
 In the meanwhile, the gentleman in black, ever upon 
 the alert to carry his schemes into effect, had propa- 
 gated a report among the aristocracy that Monsieur 
 Desonges, whose house had been attacked by the mob 
 that morning, had previously been handsomely remu- 
 nerated. That he was, in fact, one of the secret abet- 
 
58 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 tors of the disaffected; that this house was purposely 
 furnished in a nnost extravagant nianner; that his cel- 
 lars were stocked with an immense quantity of the 
 most expensive wines, and. in short, that the whole af- 
 fair was "got up" for the purpose of inflaming the 
 minds of the canaille by a taste of plunder, and lead- 
 ing them to imagine that the whole of the aristocracy 
 were living in a state of similar luxury and extrava- 
 gance, while they themselves were suffering under the 
 pressure of poverty and want. 
 
 Some indeed have avowed that this report was not 
 merely a feint, to answer the purposes of the hour; but 
 that the president in black, did really excite the popu- 
 lace to attack Louis's hotel, with the intention of pro- 
 ducing such an impression on their minds. Be that as 
 it may, Louis had scarcely entered the cafe, which he 
 was wont to patronize, than he was immediately the 
 object of general attention. Expressions of condolence, 
 upon the horrible transaction of the morning, poured 
 in, from various quarters; and, it must be confessed 
 that the light manner in which the owner of so splen- 
 did a hotel treated his loss, tended, not a little, to con- 
 firm the suspicion that he had been indemnified. 
 
 Little knots of politicians were, consequently, gather- 
 ed together at all the tables: there was much whisper- 
 ing and shrugging of shoulders; and the subject was 
 discussed with occasio"nal solemnity, and a vehemence 
 certainly quite adequate to its importance. 
 
 In the meanwhile, the two friends moved on, nothing 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 59 
 
 doubting, — looked in at the theatres — nodded to some 
 half dozen friends, and displayed a perfect ease in their 
 manners, which, under existing circumstances, appear- 
 ed quite marvellous. It was noticed, however, that 
 they did not enter certain privileged boxes, occupied 
 by well known leaders of fashion and rank, with whom, 
 particularly some of the ladies therein, they were under- 
 stood to be on good terms. This circumstance was 
 afterwards spoken of as a proof of Louis's defection 
 from the aristocratics, by one party; and, by those on 
 the other side of the question, it was cited as a flagrant 
 instance of aristocratic pride and ingratitude, that, on 
 the very day that a young man was deprived of the 
 means of continuing a monstrous expenditure for their 
 gratification, he was "cut" by the people about the 
 court. The Englishman was, of course, looked upon 
 with an eye of jealousy by politicians of all descrip- 
 tions. 
 
 Though perfectly unconscious of the great sensation 
 which they created, the two friends could not but per- 
 ceive that, occasionally, an evil eye was upon them; 
 and they were about to go home, to prepare, by rest, 
 for the fatigues of the morrow, when Louis was accost- 
 ed by a friend of his former humbler fortunes, whom 
 he had not seen for many months. On his lips was 
 condolence for the morning's disaster; and there seemed, 
 to Louis, a much deeper feeling in his tone than in any 
 other of the numerous regrets which had met his ear. 
 
 "Poor fellow," said he, whispering to Charles. '*lt 
 
QQ THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 is impossible to tell when we may meet again. I know 
 he is badly off; but I cannot offend him by offering him 
 money; so, I'll just go and lose a few louis with him." 
 When a man has a desire to throw away a little money, 
 he can generally effect the purpose without much dif- 
 ficulty; and therefore the business was soon settled: 
 but, unfortunately, the transaction took place in the 
 Palais Royal, and was witnessed by divers persons, 
 whose business it was, or who had made it their busi- 
 ness, to watch Louis's conduct; and the style in which 
 he played, and the glee with which he lost, were con- 
 clusive evidences of the report in circulation against 
 him. 
 
 The room in which they sat was, by this time, much 
 thinned of company — there were but one or two strag- 
 glers, at odd corners. Charles threw a louis to the an- 
 cient "garcon," and the friends were about to depart, 
 when an herculean member of the gen-d'armerie en- 
 tered the room and formally arrested Louis Desonges 
 in the name of the king. 
 
 *'0n what charge?" exclaimed the prisoner. 
 
 **That is no affair of mine," said the soldier, "I am 
 only performing my duty." 
 
 "I'll be his bail," said the gentleman in black, whom 
 nobody had seen before, but who now stepped forward 
 as to the rescue. 
 
 "Monsieur is a state prisoner," observed the gen- 
 d'arme, with a supercilious air. 
 
 "Never mind him," said the gentleman in black, to 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 61 
 
 Louis: and he forthwith threw off his black Geneva 
 cloak and black coat, and displayed, to the wondering 
 optics of the party, a curiously worked black cambric 
 shirt which he wore beneath. Then placing himself 
 in an attitude, which would have done honour to a 
 first rate English bruiser, he calmly told the soldier to 
 "come on." 
 
 "Who the devil are you, old boy?" asked the gen- 
 d'arme, somewhat diverted at the drollery of his an- 
 tagonist's appearance, and mistaking him for a drunken 
 bourgeois. 
 
 "Precisely so," replied the gentleman in cambric. 
 
 "You had better go home and look after your family," 
 added the soldier. 
 
 "Precisely so," was the answer, "that is precisely 
 what I mean to do." 
 
 "Guillaume!" said the man in office to one of his 
 comrffdes who stood at the door, "turn out this old 
 drunkard." 
 
 "Oui, mon corporal," replied Guillaume, advancing 
 solemnly and lowering his musket, as if to sweep away 
 the aforesaid black-shirted gentleman, as a fly may be 
 brushed from the table: but, to Guillaume's utter dis- 
 may, the said dark gentleman gave the said musket a 
 kick, which sent it up to the ceiling, where it hung 
 suspended by the bayonet. 
 
 "Diable!" exclaimed poor Guillaume. 
 
 "Precisely so," repeated the gentleman of the black 
 cambric, rubbing his hands, and then resuming his 
 
62 THEQENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 attitude of defence, "Why don't you come on, you 
 cowardsl" 
 
 "Cowards!" exclaimed the corporal, "I'll soon teach 
 you, you old coquin!" and he rushed forward to the 
 attack. 
 
 "One, two," said the gentleman in black, as he 
 planted two blows, well known among men of "science" 
 by those names, and down fell the corporal. **One, 
 two, again," added the black bruiser, and poor Guil- 
 laume measured his length upon the floor. "I'm the 
 boy for darkening their daylights," cried the dingy 
 elderly gentleman, in high glee. 
 
 "Au secours!" roared the two prostrate men of war; 
 and instantly a great noise of trampling was heard up- 
 on the staircase, immediately after which a dozen of 
 gen-d'armerie made their appearance. The sight of 
 "a mill," and the admirable science displayed by his 
 dingy friend, recalled old times to Charles's remem- 
 brance, and he had, as if by instinct, thrown off his 
 coat. Louis followed his example, though he knew 
 not exactly for what purpose: but he was one of the 
 million who think it right to imitate those around 
 them. 
 
 The soldiers drew up like brave men prepared to 
 encounter an enemy; but there was no enemy to fight. 
 It was, to them, a scene most strange and unaccounta- 
 ble, for they could perceive nothing formidable in the 
 appearance of two young men unarmed and without 
 coats, and a short, elderly gentleman, in a black shirt, 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 63 
 
 whom they, for soldiers are wofully ignorant in such 
 matters, mistook for a clergyman. Their comrades 
 had by this time got up, and were rubbing their eyes, 
 which were, however, very effectually obscured. More 
 soldiers were now heard on the ascent, for the alarm 
 had gone round with true military rapidity. 
 
 "Milling won't do now," whispered the gentleman in 
 black to Charles, "there are too many of them; leave 
 all to me and tell Desonges to hold his tongue." 
 
 An officer now stepped forward, and asked the two 
 eye-rubbers what was the meaning of the uproar. 
 
 "It is that infernal old rascal in black," replied the 
 corporal. 
 
 "Precisely so," said the gentleman of the cambric. 
 
 '^That's him!" cried Guillaume, "that's him that 
 kicked my musket up into the ceiling." And imme- 
 diately he recommenced rubbing and exclaiming, "oh! 
 my eyes!" 
 
 The officer looked up, and seeing the musket sus- 
 pended by the bayonet from the roof, into which, it 
 seems to have penetrated to some depth, turned to the 
 gentleman in black for an explanation. 
 
 "Precisely so," was the reply, I confess it. I was 
 wrong: but I deliver myself up to answer for my im- 
 proper conduct." 
 
 "That's not him!" roared the blind corporal. 
 
 "What do you mean?" asked the officer, "you said 
 this moment it was him." 
 
64 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 "No, no, not the prisoner! the prisoner is him in the 
 pompadour coat," cried the corporal. 
 
 "They have none of them any coats," said the 
 officer. N 
 
 "Sir," resumed the gentleman in black muslin, with 
 an ease and elegance of manner, which failed not in its 
 effect upon the young military Parisian, and at the 
 same time, imitating so closely the tone of Louis, as to 
 startle the real owner of the voice, "Sir, th6 poor cor- 
 poral seems to have been labouring for some time under 
 a defect of vision, and the crisis has come suddenly upon 
 him. In the matter of the coat, however, I must 
 say-" 
 
 "That's him!" shouted the corporal, I'll swear to 
 him." 
 
 "Let me beg, Mons. le capitaine," continued the 
 gentleman in the black sleeves, "that you will not suf- 
 fer any swearing in my presence! but, as I was ob- 
 serving, here is my coat," and he took it from a chair, 
 and held it up toward the chandelier, "you may per- 
 ceive it is a sort of a — pompadour — or a what d'ye 
 call it de la reine — or — a something else from the 
 Dauphin. Bah! I am no tailor, I don't understand 
 such matters." 
 
 "By all that's courtly," said the officer, it is a most 
 exquisite cloth, and made in a style of infinite and in- 
 imitable workmanship. Will you favour me with your 
 artist's address? really, upon my honour! I never! — but, 
 as to the colour — I really cannot say exactly that I 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 65 
 
 know what term to give it; it is a kind of a sort of a 
 — no — not exactly that — but, apropos, I believe you 
 are my prisoner, now I think of it?" 
 
 "Precisely so," replied the gentleman usually in black; 
 "it is not worth while to keep these men waiting. As 
 for the charge against me — let it come — but gentle- 
 men of your honourable profession, must, I know, do 
 their duty. We may as well, therefore, adjourn." 
 
 "Apropos, corporal, you have the letter about you?" 
 asked the officer. The poor fellow fumbled and found 
 it, and respectfully presented it to his superior, who 
 glanced over it, and then continued speaking. "Your 
 
 "Louis Desonges," said the gentleman of the curious- 
 ly cut coat. 
 
 "Let me see," resumed the officer; and then he read 
 to himself a description of Louis's person and stature, 
 which, although they accorded as little as might be, 
 appeared perfectly correct in his eye, as indicating the 
 very gentlemanly, though somewhat dark, personage 
 before him. 
 
 When the scrutiny was over, the gentleman in the 
 questionable pompadour coat took the officer's arm 
 with the most perfect coolness, and remarked, "You'll 
 find my tailor a devilish good fellow — never in a hurry 
 for his money." 
 
 "Capital!" exclaimed the young officer, "my dear 
 Sir, I'm greatly obliged — but — just turn round, now 
 it's on — by St. Louis! it fits like a glove! What do you 
 
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66 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 call long credit? But, I beg your pardon, I keep you 
 waiting — it is my duty now to wait upon you." 
 
 "Pardon me, my dear Sir," said the gentleman of the 
 black cambric and pompadour, "it is my duty to wait 
 upon you — I entreat you — indeed you give me pain — • 
 consider, I am your prisoner." 
 
 "Well, then, 1 am your guardian," was the reply; 
 "ha! ha! well, and so he — serjeant! set us a going, will 
 you — so he gives devilish long credit, does he?" 
 
 "Vou may say that!" answered the gentleman of the 
 black bag: and, with such sort of conversation, the 
 military and the prisoner left our heroes, as though 
 they were persons utterly beneath their attention. 
 
 "It is, by no means, an unpleasant thing to be taken 
 to the Bastile by proxy," observed Louis. 
 
 "He's a capital old fellow!" said Charles, "with his 
 *one, two' — did you observe his guard?" 
 
 It was a blackguard style of doing the thing, after 
 all," added Louisj "I prefer the rapier:" and then they, 
 in their way home, entered upon a discussion relative 
 to national habits and prejudices, respecting which 
 they argued long, and with the usual result, namely, 
 that each became more firmly established in his own 
 opinion. 
 
 In the morning an officer of the Bastile, who knew 
 Louis's person well, and whose duty it was to wait 
 upon him in his confinement, was much astonished to 
 find his place occupied by the gentleman in black, who 
 seemed in high glee, and gayly addressed his visiter. 
 
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 with whom it seemed he had formerly been intimate. 
 The jailer, however, did not now feel at all disposed to 
 acknowledge the acquaintance; and the dark gentle- 
 man was immediately brought forth from his dark cell, 
 and confronted with the corporal and Guillaume, who 
 had, by this time, recovered the use of their eyes. An 
 eclaircissement consequently took place, and the young 
 officer made ten thousand apologies for the error into 
 which he had been led by the folly of his men. 
 
 The gentleman in black vehemently entreated him 
 not to give himself a moment's uneasiness; and assured 
 him that he could not but deem the occurrence most 
 fortunate, which had introduced him to a young officer 
 of such bravery, such courtly manners, and such ex- 
 quisite taste. A few compliments were then ex- 
 changed between the two new acquaintances, and 
 (after the gentleman in black had given a handful of 
 louis to the corporal and Guillaume, to purchase oint- 
 ment for their black eyes) they drove off together to 
 the tailor's, where the hopeful young military exquisite 
 "opened an account" in a manner extremely gratifying 
 to his companion. 
 
 "The fellow gives long credit, you say?"- observed 
 the officer carelessly, as he buttoned his coat, and they 
 were leaving the artist's "magasin." 
 , "Devilish long," replied the other. 
 
 "Capital! I hate to be pestered for payment by these 
 vulgar fellows. It's excessively annoying." 
 
 "Precisely so," replied his dark acquaintance; "but 
 
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 set your heart at ease. I'll mystify the fellow. I'll 
 tell him that your custom will make his fortune, for 
 that nothing can prevent your rapid rise in the service, 
 and that you must, in a very few years, be a general 
 officer, at least. And, indeed, my dear friend, there is 
 no impropriety in my making such a representation: 
 for, really, with your appearance, your figure, man- 
 ners, taste, and abilities" 
 
 "Nay, nay, my dear Monsieur!" exclaimed the young 
 Parisian, *'you are too partial!" 
 
 "Not a whit," said the insinuating flatterer. "I 
 eotdd tell you what a certain beautiful young Comtesse 
 — but, mum — apropos, have you breakfasted?" 
 
 "Not yet," was the reply. 
 
 "Allons done, exclaimed the other, "a la fourchette, 
 toujours, that's my way;" and they went into a re- 
 staurateur together. 
 
 From thence, after a couple of hours, the gentleman 
 in black came forth alone, muttering to himself, "Hem! 
 at billiards with a chevalier d'industrie — beheves him- 
 self the handsomest fellow in Paris — fancies all the 
 ladies in love with him — long tailor's bill — good — ex- 
 quisitely dingy!" and, snuffing up a huge pinch of black 
 Paris rappee and hellebore, he walked away. 
 
 In the meanwhile our two heroes were "en route," 
 and had left Paris many leagues in the rear. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 We are now about to ask the reader to repeat an 
 action which, in all probability, he will have commit- 
 ted several times, without any hint from us. We 
 earnestly request him, after reading a few more lines, 
 to throw aside our pages, and to employ himself awhile 
 in fancying himself possessed of such a black morocco 
 pocket book, long black elastic steel purse and etceteras, 
 as appertained to each of our two heroes.' Imagina- 
 tion, we opine, if its wings be allowed full play, will 
 lead him a strange dance. Such a dance, indeed, if 
 the truth were to be confessed, as would be scarcely 
 seemly if taken in reality. Should the eye of beauty 
 be cast on this page, we beg it to be understood that 
 the last sentence is not intended to apply to the fair. 
 
 We ?iow suppose this task to be executed: and, if it 
 be done fairly, and honestly, and without any mental 
 reservation, the reader will not be surprised to hear 
 that Charles Maxwell and Louis Desonges committed 
 many egregious acts during their ramblings, for three 
 years, upon the continent. The gentleman in black 
 appears to have been perfectly satisfied with their pro- 
 ceedings: at all events he deemed his personal appear- 
 
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 ance before them unnecessary; and it is said, that, 
 having much business in hand at that period in Paris, 
 he established his head quarters in the Palais Royal, 
 and was to be seen, every hour of the day and night, 
 at some one of the various cafes therein, or in the 
 neighbourhood. His society seems likewise to have 
 been much sought after; and the dark old gentleman 
 appeared in high glee, and entered into the spirit of all 
 that was going on around him. 
 
 The young men, had, in the meanwhile, seen all 
 that was worth seeing, and many things which were 
 not worth seeing, and many more which it might have 
 been better if they had not seen. Exhaustless purses 
 bring endless wants; and they became patrons of the 
 arts, and amateurs, cognoscenti, &c. &c. in music, paint- 
 ing, sculpture, engraving, Slc. &c.: were, consequently, 
 initiated into, arid made fellows and members of vari- 
 ous societies, instituted for various purposes, but all 
 '^^rofessing the most disinterested motives, and aiming 
 only at the public good. They sojourned awhile in 
 Switzerland, talking and dreaming of Jean Jaques 
 Rousseau. Then they passed into Italy, and saw Rome 
 and the Pope, and talked of antiques and virtu, and 
 picked up divers set terms relative to painting, of the 
 meaning of which they had some indistinct oonception. 
 Sicily and Greece were visited because it was plea- 
 sant to be able to say that they had been to those 
 countries — and then they bent their way howeward 
 through the Austrian territories, and tarried awhile at 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 71 
 
 the sundry mighty little courts which were afterwards 
 conglomerated by Napoleon into "The Confederation 
 of the Rhine." Among these, each of our heroes lived 
 **en prince," and by their profuse expenditure, excited 
 a "great sensation!" At length they parted, in the 
 Netherlands, with mutual professions of interminable 
 friendship, and a fixed resolution of keeping up a regu- 
 lar correspondence. 
 
 The French Revolution, however, which commenced 
 almost immediately afterwards, re\olved the whole 
 machine of European politics with so rapid a whirl as 
 to throw England and France, like two balls impelled 
 by centrifugal power, at the utmost possible distance 
 from the central point of amity at which they had lain 
 sometime quietly together; — the consequence of this 
 convulsion was, that although Charles and Louis had 
 correspondent and corresponding inclinations, they 
 found it extremely difficult, and at length dangerous, 
 to attempt to correspond; and so gradually lost sight of 
 each other. 
 
 Charles returned to London, where some tons of 
 statues, coins, vases, paintings, bronzes, and bonzes, 
 "bas and haut relievos," mummies and mummeries, had 
 arrived before him. Consequently, he walked amid a 
 crowd of envious or admiring worshippers — a complete 
 lion, like Juno amid the lesser goddesses; — "incedit leo," 
 as Doctor Panglos would say. The shipment he had 
 made was a most lucky hit, inasmuch as it introduced 
 him to the best society of the day, and obtained for him 
 
72 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 almost as many letters at the end of his name as there 
 are papers on the tail of a kite; so away he went shining 
 among the "lesser stars" like a* comet, for several years; 
 
 and then No, fair reader, it was not then — but long 
 
 before, that he had discovered that, with all the excite- 
 ment of unchecked pleasure, inexhaustible riches, and 
 uninterrupted health, there was still a "something" 
 wanting. And what? It was no less than the society, 
 the friendship, the love of one (if there be such another 
 on the earth) as good, as fair, and as virtuous as thou 
 art. He saw the half forgotten, or if not, only-remem- 
 bered-in-dreams, form of Clara Haultaught, and he 
 felt that he had done both her and himself an injustice 
 by supposing that it was the extent of her father's for- 
 tune which led him to fancy her so exceedingly beau- 
 tiful, when he (then on the eve of bankruptcy) had 
 danced with her at Leicester. He knew the old ad- 
 miral's faihng, (alas! that such an anomaly should ex- 
 ist as a brave but avaricious man!) and one day, after 
 dinner, told him that whenever he married, observing 
 by the way that he had no such intention, he was re- 
 solved never to accept a penny of his wife's fortune, 
 but to settle the whole upon her and her heirs, and 
 even to double the amount, if her parents thought 
 fit. 
 
 "Ah! my dear. Sir," said the admiral, "if all young 
 men had your consideration — hem — let me see, there's 
 poor Board'em of the Scourer; two years ago he got 
 posted, and married Commissioner Green's daughter, 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 73 
 
 who had her poor aunt Bet's savings all in her own 
 hands, twenty thousand and more, got foul of the Lord 
 knows how many d— d five-farthing, two-penny-half- 
 penny French merchant-men. You know what fol- 
 lowed; I say nothing — the prize-court, and all that 
 sort of thing — teazed, bothered, taken aback, kept 
 
 ashore, chaise-and-four, d n. You know the rest. 
 
 Got to Boodle's, half mad. Not a shilling left." 
 
 An invitation was a matter of course, and one suc- 
 ceeded another as waves upon the beach. 
 
 "I never knew happiness before," said Charles to 
 Clara. 
 
 Clara seemed as if she had uttered the words, and 
 blushed (how Gothic!) and looked she *'knev7 not 
 where," she told Charles some weeks afterw^ards, **for 
 there was a swimming mistiness before her eyes." 
 
 The old admiral happened at the time to be "miss- 
 ing," and so was every earthly object for the space of 
 three hours, to the eyes and recollection of the two 
 lovers. All they beheld w^as each other, until — ding 
 dong went the discordant first dinner bell. 
 
 "A moment — me moment longer, my dear Clara!" 
 said Charles. 
 
 The moment seemed scarcely past when the second 
 larum awoke Clara from her dream, and mechanically 
 recollecting her father's extreme precision, she rushed 
 from the presence of her lover. Absorbed in his 
 dreams of future bliss, he was leaning his head upon 
 his hand, when in stalked the old admiral. 
 
74 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "AhjCharles!" said he,panting, "How are you, my lad. 
 Devilish hot weather. One would think the good ship 
 Britannia was afloat, and we were all crossing the line 
 together. Ha! ha! eh?" 
 
 "True enough," observed Charles. 
 
 "Eh? what's that? What's true enough?" asked the 
 admiral. 
 
 "I have crossed the line," said young Maxwell. 
 
 "The devil you have! When, where, how?" ejacu- 
 lated the astonished seaman. 
 
 "Just now," replied Charles. 
 
 "JVbrw/ why, zounds, boy, you are mad or dreaming." 
 
 "Both," replied Charles, "but it is a dream and de- 
 lirium that will, I hope, last all my life." 
 
 Then followed an explanation, told in as coherent a 
 manner as could possibly be '^expected under existing 
 circumstances." The old gentleman affected gravity, 
 although he experienced a sensation of extreme plea- 
 sure: but at length the generous feelings which, in 
 spite of individual imperfections, seem ever to pervade 
 the breast of a British seaman, rose triumphant above 
 all disguise. 
 
 "Give me your hand!" exclaimed the admiral, and 
 he clasped it with as much firmness and strength as 
 though he was grasping his sword on the quarter-deck 
 in the day of battle. *'But hold, young gentleman," he 
 continued, recollecting himself, "We're running before 
 the wind into a strange port, without taking soundings. 
 You have exchanged broadsides with Clara, I see plain 
 
TBE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 75 
 
 enough. I expected it. I must confess; so d — n all hy- 
 pocrisy; there's an end of that. Her colours, my brave 
 fellow, where are they? Lowered, eh?" 
 
 At this moment Clara entered the drawing-room. 
 
 "Hist! she comes," whispered Charles, anxious to 
 save his beloved from the pain her father might at 
 random inflict on her sensibility. 
 
 "La! how delicate," exclaims some lady's maid. 
 Well, Miss, we can't help it; we tell the tale as 'twas 
 told to us; but what a lady's sensibility is, exactly and 
 preci&ely, we cannot satisfactorily define. 
 
 The admiral knew nothing of, or else had forgotten, 
 for "old men will forget," all about such matters, and 
 therefore repeated after Charles. 
 
 "Aye, here she comes, sure enough! and seems 
 taken a little aback. Come, Clary, my dear, the se- 
 cret's all out. It's no use ^shamming Abraham' now, 
 
 so what say you, my own dear little God bless you!" 
 
 Here the old veteran's utterance was stopt by the 
 close embrace of his daughter, who threw herself upon 
 his neck and kissed him with a most vehement alacrity, 
 yet, strange to say, all the while sobbing "to match." 
 
 "Come, come, my dear girl, Clary," gasped the ad- 
 miral, "my love — nay, nay, dearest, don't cry. Have 
 it all your own way; I won't no, not to be made com- 
 mander-in-chief in the East. No, no, come, come, d — n 
 it> gi^lj you'll choke me! — So, then, you won't strike 
 your colours, mayhap? eh?" 
 
 "Down, down to the ground, my beloved father," 
 
76 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 said Clara, and sinking on her knees, she grasped those 
 of her parent, whose eyes were suffused with tears, 
 while his face exhibited a strange warfare. It seemed 
 to have been "boarded" by "sensibility," striving hard 
 to overcome its opponent, who had "assumed" the 
 command, and every muscle was briskly engaged, fight- 
 ing inch by inch. At last down fell the streamers; it 
 was all over. 
 
 "What a d— d old fool I am," sobbed the admiral, sink- 
 ing upon a sofa. Then up rose Clara, and down fell 
 Charles upon one knee; and both of them hung over 
 the old gentleman, and applied, or rather endeavoured 
 to apply, smeUing bottles, &c. 
 
 "I'm a d — d stupid, lubberly, snivelling old fellow. 
 I never did so but once before, and that was when the 
 lilies came tumbling down first after I was posted — 
 sinking, by G — d! not a shot left; sea running; cou'dn't 
 board 'em; not a sail in sight; d — n it see the Ga- 
 zette. Why do you both make such a fool of me? 
 Clary, Charles, give me your hands; there, there; d — n 
 these stinking bottles! I'm qualmish only, that's all. 
 Go, Clary, go, there's a good girl, and — hem! ahem! — 
 bring me a glass of brandy." Clara, hke a dutiful 
 child, did as she was bid. The patient swallowed the 
 medicine as a patient ought, and the medicine did as 
 all medicine ought; it cured the patient, who imme- 
 diately walked briskly three times up and down the 
 room, and then — they went to dinner. 
 
 In the evening of that day, the admiral was closeted 
 with old Bagsby, his lean legal adviser. 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 77 
 
 "The young felloVs fortune equal to yours!" ex- 
 claimed the man of law. "It can't be, admiral." 
 
 "Why not, Sir?" asked the veteran. "His father, 
 you know, was a West India merchant; and a British 
 merchant, let me tell you " 
 
 "Pshaw!" said the other; "but here's a young fellow 
 who is any thing but a merchant — living like a lord. 
 I don't suppose he has been to the counting-house half 
 a dozen times since his father's death." 
 
 "Hem! perhaps not," repUed the admiral; "however, 
 the simple state of the case stands thus: He is not to 
 receive a penny with Clary — but whatever I chose to 
 settle upon her and her heirs, he offers to double." 
 
 "The devil!" exclaimed old Bagsby. 
 
 "And that's not all," continued the admiral, "we 
 talked of sums — plain, point-blank sums. Clary's my 
 only child, said I- — and, for myself — with my habits — 
 if I shouldn't get afloat again, and I don't see why not 
 — my pay's enough. One hundred thousand, said I — 
 make it two, says he, if you like, admiral. Suppose, 
 says I — it will save the legacy duty, when the old hulk 
 goes to pieces — Suppose we say three — done, says he, 
 I'll make it six." 
 
 "The Lord have mercy upon us!" exclaimed Bagsby. 
 
 "What's the matter?" asked the admiral. 
 
 "Matter!" muttered the lawyer, "Hem, matter? 
 
 why, here have I, for more than half a century, been 
 
 rising early and sitting up late, making the most of 
 
 every thing that came in the way; spending nothing 
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78 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 — saving — scraping together, in hopes that in my old 
 age " 
 
 "Pshaw!" said the admiral, "youVe feathered your 
 nest well enough, I know — so, no grumbling — but to 
 business. How long will it take to prepare the deed?" 
 
 "Ah, ah! ahem! Let me see. In a case of such 
 moment, my dear Sir, every thing should, you know, 
 be arranged with extreme caution. The amount is 
 immense — it depends much upon the nature of the pro- 
 perty — most Hkely some of the young gentlemen's is in 
 the West Indies — and — ahem! you know, my good Sir, 
 how precarious such sort of possessions are; particular- 
 ly in time of war, when the enemy's fleets are wander- 
 ing upon the sea, the Lord knows where ." 
 
 "The Lord knows where, indeed!" exclaimed the 
 veteran, "I only wish we could catch'em at it — *wan- 
 dering,' as you call it — that's all, but, pshaw! d — n your 
 six-and-eight-penny opinions about the war. See the 
 lad yourself on the business — my money's all in the 
 bank of England, and the papers are in my strong box 
 at Hamsley's." 
 
 The next morning, Charles Maxwell, having supplied 
 himself with the amount specified, from the usual 
 source, called upon the admiral, and they had scarcely 
 exchanged salutations, when Bagsby was announced. 
 
 "By the by," asked the veteran, "has the old fellow 
 called upon you this morning, with his bag, and papers, 
 and tape, and the devil knows what?" 
 
 "Who? Sir!" Charles inquired, in a tone of alarm, 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 79 
 
 which raised a momentary suspicion in the mind of his 
 father-in-law elect. 
 
 "My lawyer, Sir, Mr. Bagsby," was the grave reply. 
 "He was to call on you respecting the subject of our 
 conversation yesterday, and is now here in the room 
 below, by my appointment, in order to arrange the bu- 
 siness." 
 
 "Oh! is that all?" said Charles, smiling, "Let us have 
 him up, by all means." 
 
 Accordingly, the man of parchment (to which epithet 
 the texture of his skin alone might have afforded him 
 a fair claim) was shewn into the presence of his two 
 most wealthy, and of course, most worshipful clients; 
 towards whom he came bowing, and bending, and grin- 
 ning, and worshipping, in their persons, his idol Mam- 
 mon, in a manner sufficiently ludicrous. After a thou- 
 sand apologies, and such sort of tom-foolery, they pro- 
 ceeded to business, and the man of law inquired the 
 name of young Maxwell's professional adviser, with 
 whom he felt, no doubt, he should be happy to act, 
 on the present occasion. 
 
 "Aye, aye! like a pair of shears," quoth the admiral, 
 "Ha, ah! eh! Bagsby — cut what comes between, eh? 7iot 
 each other, ah?" 
 
 "1 ?iever employed a lawyer since I was of age," said 
 Charles. 
 
 "What!" exclaimed old Bagsby, as his rigid frame 
 started into a perpendicular. ("A sensible young fel- 
 low!" thought the veteran.) "Hem, ahem! ahem!" re- 
 
80 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 peatedly repeated poor Bagsby, ere he could proceed to 
 state a few of the various reasons why it was "advisa- 
 ble to be advised, prudent and circumspect, needful 
 and absolutely necessary, &c. &c,, in all such and the 
 like and similar sorts and kinds of cases, where and 
 wherein, and in and concerning which property, &c. 
 &c. &c., and all such sort of thing, was various and 
 of numerous descriptions and kinds, both as it regarded 
 and concerned estimated value of estates, &c. 
 
 Here Charles, having been too much accustomed of 
 late to have his own way, became weary of listening, 
 and interrupted the speaker with a most ungracious 
 yawn, followed by a "Pish!" Having thus "caught the 
 speaker's eye," as well as stopt his tongue, he proceeded. 
 
 "There can be no difficulty in the present case. I 
 believe, admiral, we understand each other. I agree 
 to settle on your daughter the same amount as you 
 think fit to do yourself" 
 
 "Exactly," replied the veteran, and I, to save legacy 
 duty, mean to settle all I have, excepting this house 
 and grounds, which are at an easy distance from the 
 admiralty." 
 
 "Nothing can be clearer," said Charles. "The sum 
 is, I think, three hundred thousand." 
 
 "Exactly so," said old Haultaught, "and" — coolly 
 continued Charles, taking out his black morocco leather 
 pocket book, "there — there is the money." 
 
 "By the trident of Neptune, and the old gh:l that 
 holds it!" shouted the admiral. You're a noble fel- 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 81 
 
 low. If you hadn't a brass farthing, Clary should never 
 — But, I'm afraid, my dear boy, you have been too 
 hasty. Have you made your calculations about house- 
 keeping, and so on? I should not like you and Clary to 
 shorten sail, and if we lock up such a sum as this, per- 
 haps " 
 
 "It will make no sort of difference, I assure you. I 
 shall never miss it." 
 
 *' Wonderful!" thought old Bagsby, "I'll try and get 
 a share in some West India concern myself." 
 
 The "instrument" was immediately drawn up, "sign- 
 ed, sealed, and delivered," by the admiral and Charles, 
 as their own "act and deed;" and the next act was 
 marriage. 
 
 Then away flew time. Year rolled away after year. 
 The old admiral went to sea again, and had a glorious 
 brush or two, "short and sweet;" and gave Monsieur a 
 smack in "the chops of the channel." Then he went 
 to bask himself, like a dry old fish as he was, on India's 
 sunny shore; from whence, after the benefit of a seven 
 years' fry, he returned, considerably increased in 
 wealth. It was a proud day for the whole party when 
 the veteran landed at Portsmouth, and Charles and 
 Clara presented to him their first-born, a fine boy, then 
 eight years of age, in a middy's uniform; and his sister 
 Clara, a beautiful little wax doll, as her mother had 
 been before her. So at least thought Admiral Haul- 
 taught, and declaring that she was too beautiful and 
 delicate as yet to be played with by a rough sailor, 
 
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 he seized upon the sturdy boy as his lawful prize; and 
 many a ride, and walk, and gambol, and frolic, and 
 quarrel, and reconciliation, had they together, both in 
 town and country, till the youth was old enough to 
 serve his King. Then, — it was a hard task, but it must 
 be the case with us all, — they parted for the last time. 
 "Charles Haultaught Maxwell," said the old admiral, 
 "Remember that's your name, my dear boy. Fear 
 God and honour your King. Look at the British flag; 
 let it be your business to see that respected wherever it 
 floats, either in a cock-boat or a first-rate; mind thatf 
 and d — n all politics. Leave them to the lubbers 
 
 ashore. Remember poor Nelson's last signals Well, 
 
 well, I know you will. But mind — if ever you disgrace 
 your name, d — n me if I leave you a copper bolt." 
 
 "With this and the like advice the poor old gentle- 
 man blessed his beloved grandson, till he delivered him 
 into the hands of an old mess-mate, and saw his young 
 hero borne away upon the green billows, from Yar- 
 mouth jetty, in the jolly boat of H. M. S. the D . 
 
 With his glass he stood watching her progress till all 
 hands were safely on board. "He walks the quarter- 
 deck now for the first time," thought the Vetera^, and 
 a thousand images, created by memory and fancy al- 
 ternately, kept him company all the way to London, 
 as he sat recHned back in his travelling carriage. A 
 few months terminated the old gentleman's mortal ca- 
 reer. His efiigies graced Westminster Abbey, and his 
 Eastern wealth formed another immense accumulating 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 83 
 
 fund, which his son-in-law, for reasons we wot of, felt 
 not so delighted with as is usual in such cases. The 
 domestic felicity of Charles and Clara was perfect. 
 
 The termination of our late long-protracted war 
 brought our happy couple to the afternoon of life. 
 Young Charles was a fine young lieutenant, just of age, 
 and with property and interest amply sufficient (to say 
 nothing of certain musty Gazettes) to expect "to be 
 posted," ^c. &c. as soon as "propriety would allow." 
 Clara was all that the fondest, aye, or the wisest (and 
 the terms are not always synonymous, we fear) of 
 mothers could desire. Had the old admiral lived, he 
 might have altered his opinion — or, perhaps he might 
 not. The fortune which he left her failed not, how- 
 ever, to throw around her every charm and grace, a 
 dazzling halo, in which, like insects round a flame, a 
 thousand gay, thoughtless, and fluttering ephemera 
 sported, and were blinded, scorched, and "damaged" 
 for their temerity. 
 
 But another year passed, and Charles Maxwell, that 
 is, the "old original" Charles Maxwell of our tale, 
 underwent a sad and melancholy alteration. Long fits 
 of mental absence occupied him when in society. No 
 more the well turned repartee or mirthful jest issued 
 from his now pale lips. 
 
 Seldom he smiled— and then in such a sort, 
 As though he smiled in scorn, to think that he 
 Could e'en be moved to smile at anything. 
 
84 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "Xeque vigiliis neque quietibus sedari poterat." as 
 Sallust savs of Cataline. In plain English, he was 
 never easv, sleeping or waking. ''The consequence" 
 WEis, thai in a very short space of time ("colos ei exsan- 
 guis, foedi oculi, citus modo, modo tardus; prorsus in 
 facie, vultuque vecordia inerat,") he got horribly pale, 
 ghastly about the eyes, and became a disagreeable, shuf- 
 fling, unsociable, uncertain sort of a fellow; more like 
 a poor lunatic, who fancied himself hunted by devils, 
 than a well-bred, easy-going country gentleman. 
 
 The reason for this change was , that he had been 
 calculating, and had discovered that, by the tenor of 
 his engagement with the Gentleman in Black, whom, 
 by the way, we hope our readers will take especial 
 care not to forget, during the silent and almost imper- 
 ceptible lapse of nearly eight-and-twenty years, his 
 tribute had increased from the minute matter of a mo- 
 ment, to an annual demand of two thousand three hun- 
 dred and thirty days and a fraction, calculating each 
 day at sixteen hours in length, and all to be spent in 
 sin. Such was the ^'demand" for sin in the then cur- 
 rent year. It is true that there had been no grum- 
 bling on the part of his ally or adversary; and sup- 
 phes of money, when required, which had however 
 rarely been caUed for of late, were never refused. 
 There were, doubtless, past sins sufficient to keep all 
 square, *'as per agreement," hitherto; but Charles 
 could not flatter himself that he had sufficient "on 
 hand" to make up an amount of four thousand six 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 85 
 
 hundred and six days for the next year, and for that 
 which was to follow, nine thousand! — all was utter 
 darkness and desperation. Yet all this arose from 
 agreeing to sin for one single moment "per annum.'* 
 Reader, take care you never make such a compact. 
 
 Charles had been at Paris the year before, hoping 
 to discover the fate of his fellow-^4ctim, Louis Deson- 
 ges. The usual mode of finding rich individuals, 
 through their bankers, was, of course, in the present 
 instance, unserviceable, and the pohce knew no such 
 person. As the crisis of his fate, however, was equally 
 near with that of Charles Maxwell, it was fit we 
 should run over the principal events of his life, from 
 the commencement of the Revolution to the end of the 
 war, or rather wars issuing therefrom, like snakes 
 from a Medusa's head. 
 
 During the reign of terror, his riches gained him 
 both friends and enemies: conducted him into prison, 
 and purchased him out; he found that reformers from 
 the crowd, or *"'canaille," are ever vain and venal. 
 The ignorant make sad use of power, the proper ex- 
 tent of which they cannot comprehend; so they stretch 
 it, as children will a piece of Indian rubber, till it snaps 
 back upon them and hurts their fingers, and then they 
 are glad to let it fall out of their hands. Those among 
 the French evanescent governors who had any nous, 
 made their observations, and most attentively marked 
 out those whose plethoric purses seemed to expose 
 
86 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 them to the danger of temptation, and falling off from 
 their new (not as we have it, true) allegiance. 
 
 Louis wept over the niisfortunes of his country, and, 
 be it said to his honour, the riches of which he had in 
 so strange a manner acquired the command, were fre- 
 quently devoted to the relief of those whose property 
 had been swept away in the tumult. Among others, 
 the Comte de Tien a la Cour, and his lovely daughter, 
 Emilie, were indebted to him for their safety, and for 
 his company in their flight into Switzerland, where he 
 settled them in a beautiful and retired situation near 
 Vevay, and on the borders of the blue lake Leman. 
 With certain resolutions in his head, away then posted 
 Louis towards the Rhine, and on the banks thereof dis- 
 covered and purchased an ancient baronial chateau and 
 estate, together with its title. 
 
 "How wretched a thing it is to have to do with law- 
 yers!" exclaimed Louis to the ci-devant baron, whose 
 honours he was purchasing, and who might literally 
 have been said (according to the French term "man- 
 ger ses biens") to have ^'■eaten up" his estate. "They 
 are dreadfully slow." 
 
 "Humph!" said the Baron de Braanksdorfischen, 
 "I've sometimes found them too quick." 
 
 "When you were not in a hurry, then, I'll be bound 
 to say," observed Louis. 
 
 "Aye," was the reply. "Do you purpose living 
 here, Monsieur?" 
 
 Louis replied in the negative. 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 89 
 
 ed with, several of the most ancient houses in France; 
 but^ he was determined to believe if possible, and that 
 is a great matter in such cases. The document had its 
 expected influence upon the Comte, for it was drawn 
 out and blazoned in due heraldric terms and forms; and, 
 perhaps, he likewise was resolved to believe. As for Emi- 
 lie, like most of her sex, when once fairly in love, it 
 would have been much the same thing to her had her 
 lover changed his name to Bourreau, for she was much 
 of Juliet's way of thinking, that "a rose with any other 
 name would smell as sweet." 
 
 "My dear M. le Baron," said M. le Comte, ''you 
 must be well aware of the sincerity, I might almost 
 say, the devotion of my attachment and friendship. You 
 are the only man upon the face of the earth, his Catho- 
 lic Majesty alone excepted, from whom I would have 
 deigned to accept any sort of assistance in- the present 
 tate of things; but, my daughter is now, alas! the sole 
 , oe, the only remaining branch of an ancient and 
 .. illustrious house; and, indeed, I am glad to find, 
 , , '>owever, I never doubted, that you really are so 
 . .„ , 'ied to the Montmorencies, the Grammonts, 
 
 . ^ '^euls. When we return to France, I have 
 sort of a man ... 
 
 T . ; can, from my connexions at Versailles, 
 
 Louis complei. -' 
 
 x-i.1 X CI '^ succession arranged; and that my 
 new title to Switze ^ ^ 
 
 J , . , *^n I am cone, which, in the com- 
 
 and most graciously , & ' 
 
 rent. And there — the Vc. ^. ^ 
 
 , ^. , *M. le Comte," exclaimed 
 
 makes one poetical — 
 
 ''to spare my feelings. 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 them to the danger of temptation, and falling off from 
 their new (not as we have it, true) allegiance. 
 
 Louis wept over the niisfortunes of his country, and, 
 be it said to his honour, the riches of which he had in 
 so strange a manner acquired the command, were fre- 
 quently devoted to the relief of those whose property 
 had been swept away in the tumult. Among others, 
 the Comte de Tien a la Cour, and his lovely daughter, 
 Emilie, were indebted to him for their safety, and for 
 his company in their flight into Switzerland, where he 
 settled them in a beautiful and retired situation near 
 Vevay, and on the borders of the blue lake Leman. 
 With certain resolutions in his head, away then posted 
 Louis towards the Rhine, and on the banks thereof dis- 
 covered and purchased an ancient baronial chateau and 
 estate, together with its title. 
 
 "How wretched a thing it is to have to do with law- 
 yers!" exclaimed Louis to the ci-devant baron, whose a 
 honours he was purchasing, and who might literall- de 
 have been said (according to the French term "m/gra- 
 ger ses biens") to have ^'•eaten up" his estate. ""^ ^^ of a 
 are dreadfully slow." compunc- 
 
 "Humph!" said the Baron de Braan^ ^^" tracer.of 
 "I've sometimes found them too quick." consequence of 
 
 "When you were not in a hurry, + '"^° ^^^^ ^^ deline- 
 to say," observed Louis. ; ^^ "^^ Baron was 
 
 "Aye," was the reply. " ^'^ S^eat grandfathers 
 here, Monsieur?" '^^^ related to, and connect- 
 
 Louis replied in tb 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 89 
 
 ed with, several of the most ancient houses in France; 
 but^ he was determined to believe if possible, and that 
 is a great matter in such cases. The document had its 
 expected influence upon the Comte, for it was drawn 
 out and blazoned in due heraldric terms and forms; and, 
 perhaps, he likewise was resolved to believe. As for Emi- 
 lie, hke most of her sex, when once fairly in love, it 
 would have been much the same thing to her had her 
 lover changed his name to Bourreau, for she was much 
 of Juliet's way of thinking, that "a rose with any other 
 name would smell as sweet." 
 
 "My dear M. le Baron," said M. le Comte, ''you 
 must be well aware of the sincerity, I might almost 
 say, the devotion of my attachment and friendship. You 
 are the only man upon the face of the earth, his Catho- 
 lic Majesty alone excepted, from whom I would have 
 deigned to accept any sort of assistance in- the present 
 state of things; but, my daughter is now, alas! the sole 
 hope, the only remaining branch of an ancient and 
 most illustrious house; and, indeed, I am glad to find, 
 what, however, I never doubted, that you really are so 
 closely allied to the Montmorencies, the Grammonts, 
 and the Choiseuls. When we return to France, I have 
 no doubt that I can, from my connexions at Versailles, 
 have the affair of succession arranged; and that my 
 title will descend when I am gone, which, in the com- 
 mon course of things, cannot" 
 
 "I beseech you, my dear M. le Comte," exclaimed 
 
 the Baron of Braanksdorfischen, *'to spare my feelings. 
 h2 
 
90 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 I trust you will long live to enjoy your title and estates. 
 I see no reason why you should not marry again, and 
 that they should descend in regular succession to your 
 heirs male." 
 
 "Nor I neither, M. le Baron," said the Comte, "it is 
 a good idea. We will see about it;" and forthwith he 
 advanced to' a large mirror, and paid his respects to his 
 own respectable figure reflected therein. 
 
 The marriage took place immediately, and was, like 
 most other marriages wherein money is abundant, con- 
 ducted in such a manner as to give an extravagant idea 
 of the happiness of the "happy pair.^' The most de- 
 lightful part of the affair, however, was, that Louis and 
 Emilie, now the Baron and Baroness of Braanksdorfis- 
 chen, were really happy, and continued so for a consi- 
 derable period of time: they say for nearly a month. 
 After that,' when the dream of rapture and perfect 
 bliss had vanished, they lived much like other people, 
 and each marvelled occasionally that they should have 
 been so silly as to expect absolute perfection in any 
 human being. They passed, however, many pleasant 
 months in Switzerland: but the leaven of the revolu- 
 tion spread, and Italy was their next refuge — then 
 Malta — then to France — La Belle, la glorieuse. All was 
 right again, for Paris was as gay or gayer than ever; so 
 they fell down and worshipped the images which fac- 
 tion, or war, or fashion happened to set up, and there- 
 by proved they were — born in France, the land of 
 liberty and equality. In the profession of the latter 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 91 
 
 *^€galiii,^^ they have been most singularly consistent; 
 for, whether he has had a triumvirate, a consular, a 
 regal, or an imperial government. Monsieur has always 
 been equally faithful. "C'est egal," quoth he, on all 
 occasions. 
 
 When Napoleon was very short of money once, the 
 Baron de Braanksdorfischen was said to have waited 
 upon Talleyrand; and it was hinted that the elevation 
 of the Baron de Braanksdorfischen to the peerage of 
 France, under the title of Le Comte d'Ormalle, was 
 closely connected with that visit. Be that as it may, 
 from that period our French hero attained a degree of 
 popularity which he kept as long as he thought proper. 
 His family affairs went on comfortably enough, since 
 Emiliie never had occasion to ask him twice for money, 
 and he never grumbled at her expenditure. Like his 
 quondam friend, Charles, he had two children, a boy 
 and girl, who grew up most promisingly; being allowed 
 to do all that seemed good in their own eyes, and to 
 draw money *'at discretion." Whether they spent it 
 discreetly is another affair, and one of which their pa- 
 rents took no cognizance. 
 
 The glory of the great empire — the emperor and 
 king — the young king of Pvome — the march of mind, 
 and the march of armies — the invasion of that accursed 
 Angleterre — the merits of David — the occupation of 
 Spain — the Talma — the "Arcs des Triompbes" — les 
 grande battailles — Venus de ]\iedicis — the coronation — 
 bridges over the Seine — charters — oaths of allegiance — 
 
92 THE GENTLRMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 operas — calembourgs — Apollo Belvidere — the over- 
 throw of kingdoms, and the summersets of Monsieur^ 
 Martin, the bear in the botanic gardens, and of M. M. 
 Pieddouble at the Port St. Martin — and such sort of 
 important matters, equally and alternately occupied 
 Monsieur le Comte de Tien a la Cour, the old gray- 
 headed perpendicular grandfather of the family, Mon- 
 sieur le Comte D'Ormalle, the Comtesse, and the two 
 young sprigs of rising nobility. 
 
 Then away flew time, and with it away flew many 
 of the above, and other, and such like matters — the 
 emperor was off, that is, not on, his throne; though Jie 
 kept his title with a tenacity which must have been 
 truly gratifying to his veteran military associates, who 
 could not but have felt convinced, that when he by no- 
 minal honours rewarded their services, he bestowed 
 what he conceived to be for himself most desirable. 
 Away flew the Apollo and Venus, and the king of 
 Rome, for the march of mind and of armies had taken 
 a new direction; the invasion of England was postponed 
 sine die; David brushed with his brushes to Brussels, for 
 fear of a brush from the sweeping broom of the law; 
 and the glory, the imperishable glory of the empire — 
 its military glory — that might have remained to have 
 embalmed the names of "les braves," who fought and 
 bled, and devoted themselves for their country, though 
 a tyrant were their leader: but oaths of allegiance, 
 sworn and forgotten, reiterated and broken, tarnished 
 their hard earned laurels; and it is a pity that^to de 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 93 
 
 chamhre, and coffee-house politicians should have cack- 
 led so much about the matter, and that obscure demi- 
 soldes should claim for all, what some might yet de- 
 mand, and will doubtless receive from posterity. 
 
 The Comte D'Ormalle had shared those honours 
 which riches may ever command among the sons of 
 men, whether under kingly, imperial, or republican 
 governments. He hailed the return of Louis le Desire; 
 yet some thought his coffers were opened during the 
 hundred days — the gentleman in black would scarcely 
 have made any objection; but it is a point upon which 
 we dare not speak positively. 
 
 When Napoleon "caught a Tartar" at Mont St 
 Jean, and all was settled, the Comte D'Ormalle settled 
 likewise at his Chateau D'Ormalle, on the banks of the 
 Loire, where a settled melancholy appeared to prey 
 upon him, and he betook himself to wandering to and 
 fro, like an unquiet spirit; for he, like Charles Maxwell, 
 had taken his calculations, and was ever balancing, and 
 thinking of a monastery, and — the gentleman with the 
 black coat, Geneva cloak, &c. &c. To these medita- 
 tions the Comtesse left him undisturbed, and pursued 
 the now indispensable frivolities of the metropolis, where 
 she became the nucleus of a most ancient coterie of the 
 most ancient names and dignified personages; who ut- 
 terly despising the mushroom race of nick-named nobi- 
 lity, congregated where they could safely vent the 
 spleen which they had for so many years been bottling 
 up, while in a state of expatriation. 
 
94 THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 
 
 Having thus seen that the Comte D'Orniialle was not 
 in better plight than Charles Maxwell, it becomes our 
 duty to state their ulterior proceedings under such ap- 
 palling prospects. 
 
CHAPTEU V. 
 
 ■; *:^ 
 
 In the long hours which poor Charles Maxwell now 
 habitually spent in solitude, he indulged himself yet, 
 occasionally, in the dreams and visions of hope; and, in 
 one of these reveries, he luckily recollected old Bagsby, 
 the late admiral's lean legal adviser, of whose shrewd 
 exploits he had heard many a singularity. 
 
 "If the old fellow is yet living," thougMSi^; "and has 
 been going on steadily in the same way ever since I 
 saw him last, he must, by this time, be a match even 
 for the gentleman in black himself." 
 
 With such reflections, he lost no time, but posted to 
 the old fellow's chambers in Lyon's Inn, where he sat, 
 half buried among piles of dusty books and papers, like 
 a lion ant at the bottom of his inverted cone of crum- 
 bling sand, ready to seize on any poor animal uncon- 
 sciously approaching its verge. 
 
 Bagsby was delighted to see our hero; for he had 
 not forgotten the three hundred thousand pounds. So 
 he took him cordially by the hand, entreated him to be 
 seated, adjusted his own wig, stirred up the four square 
 inches of smoking cinders huddled together in one cor- 
 ner of the grate, bowed and grinned, rubbed his hands 
 
96 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 and his- spectacles, bowed and grinned, and bowed and 
 grinned again. 
 
 At length Mr. Maxwell did "a tale unfold," which 
 had an effect almost as tremendous as that described by 
 Shakspeare, in the well-known passage, the commence- 
 ment of which we have just quoted. But old Bagsby 
 had been so long accustomed to intricate cases, that, 
 let him be thrown where he might, he always con- 
 trived, as it were, like a cat, to fall upon his legs, and 
 find some place to cling to. So, after a long pause, he 
 thus addressed his client. 
 
 "Hem! my dear Sir, this is an ugly piece of business. 
 Hem — I have oertainly heard of this gentleman in 
 black — hem — I remember once fancying that I saw 
 him: but we have many strange characters to deal 
 with in the way of our profession— perhaps I was mis- 
 taken. Hem! But, however, to the point — I think I 
 understood that you could yet obtain supplies, money I 
 mean, to any amount?" 
 
 "I can demand any amount," replied Mr. Maxwell, 
 "and were it not immediately forthcoming, the contract 
 would then be broken on his part: an event of which I 
 have very little expectation." 
 
 "Hem! — hem — hem," resumed Bagsby, "in all such 
 and the like cases, my dear Sir, money has a great 
 effect — it is, in short, one of those things without which 
 even the law of the land itself, beautiful and simple as 
 it is, cannot always take its course. But — really — 
 ahem — this is a very ugly piece of business! very ugly. 
 
THEGENTLEMANINBLACK. 97 
 
 However, we must not despair. It is astonishing what 
 a free and judicious application of money will some- 
 times effect: and, as you don't mind expense, I really 
 think we may perhaps contrive to pull you through." 
 
 "Is it possible?" exclaimed poor Mr. Maxwell, "my 
 dear Sir! I cannot express my gratitude. But, I re- 
 member you were the admiral's friend — Oh, why did I 
 not come to you before?" 
 
 ''Never mind," rejoined Bagsby, ''better late than 
 never. Eh? — Hem. But — to business — no — no, I 
 haven't lived all these years to be frightened at a little 
 intricacy. Many a tangled case have I unravelled. 
 So, hem — in the first place, allow me to enquire if 
 there were any witnesses to this singular contract?" 
 
 "None," ejaculated Mr. Maxwell, gasping the first 
 breath of hope; "No, my dear friend, there was nobody 
 but myself and — you know who." 
 
 "Excuse me for interrupting you," said the dark 
 gentleman, stepping forward from a gloomy corner of 
 the room, with his black coat, black waistcoat, black 
 Geneva cloak, black bag, black-edged papers tied with 
 black tape, and all the rest of his black paraphernalia; 
 *'it may, perhaps, save you much trouble if, in this 
 early stage of business — ^' 
 
 "Early, indeed!" exclaimed Bagsby, somewhat irri- 
 tated at the idea of so good a thing being snatched out 
 of his hands; "Why, we have not yet commenced pro- 
 ceedings: — but, I beg your pardon, Sir, pray take a 
 
 seat." 
 I 
 
98 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 The gentleman in black sat himself down at the 
 table, and drew forth from his black bag a bundle of 
 black-edged papers, tied with black tape, which, in a 
 most business-like way, he proceeded to untie and lay- 
 before him. 
 
 "You know, Sir," said Mr. Maxwell, "there were no 
 witnesses to the transaction." 
 
 "/know there were, Sir," replied he of the Geneva 
 cloak, with a malicious smile; "see," he continued, 
 showing a paper to the lawyer, who immediately dis- 
 cerned two signatures as of witnesses, which, however^ 
 he could not exactly decipher. 
 
 "Hem!" said Bagsby, adjusting his spectacles, and 
 giving his wrinkled old mouth a peculiar twist, which, 
 as it had no particular meaning in itself, might be in- 
 tended to conceal any outward indication of what was 
 passing within. "Ahem! allow me. Sir, just to run my 
 eye over the paper a moment. Aye, aye — I see — 
 Charles Maxwell — ah — hem — em — bless me, what a 
 cold morning it is. Pull the bell, Mr. Maxwell! Here, 
 Jerry, my boy," Ke continued, addressing a lean, spider- 
 like, daddy-long-legs sort of an old man, who answered 
 the summons; "Bring some coals, Jerry — Ahem! Let 
 me see, where did I leave off?" 
 
 "You may as well leave off where you are," observed 
 the owner of the black-edged papers; "Keep your coals 
 to warm your chilly old drum-sticks after I'm gone — 
 I'm not so green as to suffer you to keep that writing 
 in your own hands after the fire is lighted." 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 99 
 
 ^*What do you mean to insinuate, Sir?" asked old 
 Bagsby, waxing wroth; *'A man of my standing and re- 
 spectability, Sir! Do you dare to say that I would be 
 guilty of so " 
 
 "Precisely so," answered the other, coolly. 
 
 "Sir, Sir," stammered the lawyer, "I'd have you to 
 know there is such a thing as law." 
 
 "Precisely so," observed he of the black bag, "I do 
 know it." 
 
 "And justice," continued Bagsby. 
 
 "That's more than you know," retorted the other. 
 
 "And damages," roared the incensed lawyer. 
 
 '•^Your clients have long been convinced of the truth 
 of that position," dryly observed the dark gentleman, 
 taking a pinch of blackguard. 
 
 Old Bagsby's rage was at its acme, and he swore by 
 all the furies and devils in the infernal regions, that he 
 would commence an action for defamation forthwith. 
 But his antagonist took it into his head to relate a cer- 
 tain fable concerning a smoky kettle and its black 
 neighbour, a boiling pot; whereat the lawyer, like a 
 snail, drew in his horns, being assisted in the retiring 
 movement by Mr. Maxwell, who requested that his 
 business might not be neglected. 
 
 "In mercantile matters, I remember," said our hero, 
 "that, when any difficulty occurred, we used to refer 
 it to arbitration." 
 
 "Good," observed the gentleman in black; "choose 
 your own men, and I'll meet them." 
 
100 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "That's fair, however," observed Charles Maxwell. 
 
 "Humph!" said Bagsby, "we must first find fit men 
 for the purpose: — but, ten to one, they'll make a bung- 
 ling affair of it. There's nothing like regular legal 
 proceedings, straight forward, as a body may say." 
 
 "Precisely so," observed the dark gentleman, "may 
 say: — but what you call straight is as crooked as my 
 tail." 
 
 To a reference, however, they at length agreed. 
 Mr. Ledger was appointed as the umpire; and, on that 
 day week, the gentleman in black was to give them 
 the "first meeting" at old Bagsby's chambers. When 
 this matter was settled, the lawyer ventured to hint 
 that he should find it necessary, or rather think it 
 most consistent with the interest of his client, to take 
 the opinion of counsel on two or three points which 
 had already occurred to him; and as money was no 
 object — 
 
 "Very true," observed Charles, feeling in his pocket, 
 and finding he had omitted to bring the needful with 
 him, "How very thoughtless! However, Sir, directly I 
 get home, I'll send a hundred pound note or two — " 
 
 "Pooh!" said the gentleman in black, taking out his 
 black morocco pocket-book, "How many will you have 
 —only say; just to save trouble, you know — it's all the 
 same between us." So he gave Charles Maxwell five 
 notes of one hundred pounds each, which he imme- 
 diately paid to the lawyer, who immediately marked 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 101 
 
 them with his own mark, and then the meeting broke 
 up. 
 
 On the appointed day, Mr. Ledger, our hero, and 
 the gentleman in black, were all punctual to a minute* 
 in their attendance at old Bagsby's chambers. The 
 wary lawyer having taken his seat, and opened the 
 business of the day, the gentleman of the black Geneva 
 cloak presented his account, with a sardonic grin, to 
 the individual who had expressed his inclination to set- 
 tle it Ledger cast his eye, in a hurried and agitated 
 manner, at the amonnt, and, addressing himself to 
 Maxwell, inquired if it could possibly be correct. 
 
 The poor gentleman cast his dim and floating eyes 
 up and down two or three sides of the tremendous pa- 
 per, which was carried over and over and over, with 
 dismal tautology; he could deny nothing; and many of 
 the items he but too well remembered. His heart 
 sank within him. 
 
 "Give me leave," said Bagsby, stretching forth his 
 lean arm. 
 
 "By all means," replied the gentleman in black. 
 
 "Don't be alarmed, Mr. Maxwell," continued old 
 Bagsby. "I have no doubt we shall pull you through," 
 and he prosed a few minutes over the account, whilst 
 his opponent sat smiling most contemptuously. 
 
 "You don't specify here," said old Bagsby, "in what 
 manner these various sums were paid; whether in spe- 
 cie, or bills, or notes." 
 
 "Pshaw!" replied the gentleman in black, that's per- 
 I 2 
 
102 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 fectly immaterial; the amount is stated explicitly- 
 enough." 
 
 "I beg your pardon, Sir," rejoined the lawyer, "it 
 makes all the difference in the world." 
 
 "Bank notes are a legal tender," quoth he of the 
 black Geneva cloak. 
 
 "No doubt; but we are not met here to discuss rig- 
 marole theories about the paper currency, which nei- 
 ther you nor I can make head or tail of." 
 
 "Precisely so; I confess myself bothered on that point. 
 It is most delightfully mystical." 
 
 "Well, well, to business," said the man of law, some- 
 what testily. "Do you mean to give us a clear, speci- 
 fic account, or not, with the dates of payment, number 
 of the notes paid, and every particular? If not, let me 
 tell you"— 
 
 "Pooh! — pooh!" replied the other, "it is not worth 
 while for you and I to quarrel about a few sheets of 
 paper." So saying, he dipped his hand into the huge 
 black bag, which he had placed on the ground, beween 
 his legs, and drew from thence an immense bundle of 
 black-edged papers, tied with black tape, which he 
 then threw across the table, exclaiming, "There, there 
 it is — made up to yesterday. I hope that will satisfy 
 you." 
 
 The veteran of the law conned over some of the 
 items, hemming and coughing as he went along; and 
 then, without uttering a word, arose and placed the 
 bundle in his iron chest, which he carefully locked; 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 103 
 
 then put the key in his pocket, and resumed his seat at 
 the table. 
 
 "Well, Sir," said the gentleman in black, who had 
 been attentively watching him, "what are we to do 
 next?" 
 
 "We must proceed to business," replied old Bagsby, 
 and ringing a little silver bell, that stood beside him, in 
 came old Jerry. 
 
 "Jerry, my boy," said his master, shew in that gen- 
 tleman from the city." 
 
 "From the city!" exclaimed Ledger, "who is he? 
 Remember, Mr. Bagsby, I should not like to be seen" 
 
 "Never fear," said the lawyer; "shew him up, Jerry." 
 Accordingly a well dressed young man was ushered in- 
 to the room. 
 
 "Well, Mr. Crabseye," said old Bagsby, "are you as 
 confident as ever?" 
 
 "It is impossible we should be mistaken," was the re- 
 ply. 
 
 "This gentleman," continued the lawyer, laying his 
 spectacles on the table, and looking triumphantly 
 around him, "this gentleman comes from the Bank of 
 England, and has examined the five one-hundred pound 
 notes which you, Sir," looking at the gentleman in 
 black, *'paid to my client here, this day week; which 
 he immediately paid to me, and which I immediately 
 marked. This gentleman pronounces them to be for- 
 geries." 
 
104 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 ''There is not a shadow of a doubt thereof," observed 
 Mr. Crabseye. 
 
 "Shew me the difference between one of them, and 
 one of your own issuing," said he of the black Geneva 
 cloak, which moved not a wrinkle on the present occa- 
 sion. 
 
 Pardon me, Sir," replied Mr. Crabseye, <'it is well we 
 have some private mark that such gentlemen as you 
 are not exactly aware of: — for upon my word, as it is, 
 it would sometimes puzzle the devil himself to tell the 
 difference." 
 
 "Precisely so," observed the gentleman in black. 
 "Well, Sir, inquired the lawyer, "you don't mean to 
 deny paying those five notes to Mr. Maxwell?" 
 
 "Not f ," was the reply. 
 
 "Then, Mr. Crabseye, you know I have your affida- 
 vit, aye — here it is — 'I, Micros Crabseye' — aye — and 
 the more needful papers too" — and again the old law- 
 yer tingled his ancient bell; and again popped in the 
 head of his ancient Jerry, who exchanged a significant 
 nod with his master, and drew himself back again. 
 Then, anon, came stalking in, a portly-looking man, 
 followed by two athletic figures, who looked most mar- 
 vellously as though they could not understand a joke. 
 
 "There, gentlemen, is your prisoner," moved Mr. 
 Crabseye, and old Bagsby seconded the motion, both 
 pointing to the gentleman with the black coat, waist- 
 coat, Geneva cloak, bag, and various other black ap- 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 105 
 
 pendages, who sat wonderfully composed, after his first 
 fidget. 
 
 The officers of justice proceeded to handcuff their 
 prisoner, who smiled thereat with a most supercilious 
 smile; and, when they had completed their operations, 
 begged that they would do the same kind office for his 
 friend Mr. Maxwell, who for a series of years, as he 
 could prove by creditable witnesses, and even by Mr. 
 Crabseye himself, had been in the habit of passing 
 forged notes. His poor victim felt as though his death 
 warrant was signed, for he knew that at his own house 
 many would be found, and that all his tradespeople 
 must, with one accord, bring forth witnesses against 
 him, if they produced any of the notes he had paid. 
 Even old Bagsby twisted about his lower lij^nd jaw, 
 most portentously, for many seconds; but recovering his 
 composure, exclaimed, "Don't be alarmed, my dear Mr. 
 Maxwell; 1 told you we should be able to pull you 
 through this business, ugly as it is." Then, turning to 
 the pinioned gentleman, he continued, **what you say, 
 Sir, may be very true, for aught I know; but we have 
 forms, Sir, forms of law, which must be attended to." 
 
 ^'Precisely so; I perceive it," and he glanced at his 
 bolted arms. 
 
 "In the first place, you must take your oath." 
 
 "I — whati" exclaimed he of the black bag. 
 
 "Your oath, Sir," resumed the lawyer, and here is a 
 Testament." 
 
 The gentleman in black, hereat, drew his hands 
 
106 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 from their cuffs as easily as from a pair of gloves, took 
 a pinch of blackguard, and said that if that were the 
 case, he must, from a scruple of conscience respecting 
 swearing, decline to proceed any further in the affair. 
 He then burst into what seemed to Mr. Crabseye and 
 his satellites to be, under existing circumstances, a most 
 unseemly fit of merriment and laughter, swearing, 
 (notwithstanding his recent scruples,) that old Bagsby 
 was a boy after his own heart, and wishing he might 
 live to be Lord Chancellor! 
 
 (? "Gentlemen!" said the man of sables, after his unsea- 
 sonable mirth had exhausted itself, "I am sorry that 
 this meeting has been so unpleasantly broken up. "i 
 must, of course, attend these good people (pointing to 
 the officqige) for the present: — but, make your own ap- 
 pointment for the final arrangement of what we first 
 met to discuss. You will manage it, Bagsby. Cras 
 aut cum velles — sed ut redirem hdc node Jleri non potest." 
 Which, fair reader, simply means, that though he 
 he could not return that evening, he would attend old 
 Bagsby on the morrow, or at any other time; and hav- 
 ing thus spoken, he was led out of the room by his at- 
 tendant genii. 
 
 No. sooner was the door closed upon them, than 
 Bagsby congratulated his client on their success so far; 
 ''Never fear. Sir," said he, "we shall pull you through 
 this business, ugly as it is. I've another poser or two 
 for old Sootikins. But first, my dear Sir, these notes, 
 
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THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 107 
 
 you see, are worth nothing, and those you have at 
 home" — 
 
 "Shall be destroyed this instant," cried our hero, 
 snatching his hat. 
 
 "Stop — stop a moment, my dear Sir. If you do, 
 how are we to proceed? For money, you know, con- 
 stitutes, as one may say, the sinews of the law." 
 
 "Never fear," observed Mr. Ledger, "I've brought 
 my cheque-book with me." 
 
 "What's that?" inquired Mr. Maxwell. 
 
 "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from 
 evil!" exclaimed Mr. Ledger. "To see how the enemy 
 may 'pack up,' as it were, a man's mind in darkness 
 and ignorance! That a British merchant should not 
 know what a cheque-book is!" 
 
 "Oh! aye! I remember now," said Mr. Maxwell, 
 "it's one of the books we used to hire the clerks to 
 write in." J|^t? ^ 
 
 Mr. Ledger sighed, but was too much a man of busi- 
 ness to leave old Bagsby without presenting him with 
 one of the magic leaves from his book, which was re- 
 ceived most graciously. He then accompanied his un- 
 fortunate friend and partner to his elegant mansion in 
 Portland Place, the furniture and entire arrangement 
 of which paralysed him with astonishment. 
 
 They destroyed the forged notes, and Mr. Maxwell 
 was furnished with a cheque-book, and instructed in 
 the use thereof; which appeared so easy, that he won- 
 dered why he should ever have preferred any other 
 
108 TIIE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 way of raising money, to the real value of which his 
 unlimited supplies for so many years had utterly blind- 
 ed him. 
 
 He once more repaired to old Bagsby's chambers. — 
 That worthy practitioner spake at great length about 
 a great variety of papers, parchments, and deeds, with 
 a greater variety of hard names than it would be worth 
 while to enumerate on the present occasion; but they 
 were all necessary^ — at least so old Bagsby said. 
 
 Another meeting was appointed, and as before, the 
 high contracting parties met at old Bagsby's office. 
 
 After the usual salutations, the gentleman in black 
 begged to thank the lawyer for having given him a 
 view of the inside of Newgate, *'at the doors of which,'' 
 he remarked, "we are generally much incommoded by 
 the ejaculation of certain words and supplications ex- 
 cessively unpleasant to our ears — many of my oldest 
 friends among you, whapj^ should never have suspect- 
 ed of praying, have there been visited with such a 
 paroxysm of religious feeling, that one would imagine 
 they had served a regular apprenticeship to craw-thump- 
 ing and psalm-singing. We wicA;-name them the doors of 
 repentance. But I beg your pardon, let us lose no time, 
 for I have some particular business on the Stock Ex- 
 change to-day — we have a new company or two Start- 
 ing, and have a scheme for a train-road and cast-iron 
 pavement, and locomotive engines of fifty legion power, 
 
 traversing between us and allow me to present you 
 
 Vi^ith a ^prospectus,' Mr. Bagsby." 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 109 
 
 '•'I beg your pardon, Sir," replied the lawyer, I don't 
 admire such presents — hem! I'd much rather not have 
 any share in your concern — ahem! I beg leave respect- 
 fully to decline." 
 
 "Well, well— of that hereafter," said he of the black 
 Geneva cloak, "so, to the matter in question. Have 
 you any thing to propose?" 
 
 "Why, my good Sir," replied old Bagsby, "we have 
 been examining your account against my worthy client 
 here, an-d, really — upon my honour — I must confess it 
 all appears perfectly clear — ahem! It is an ugly piece 
 of business." 
 
 **It is quite correct, Sir, I'll warrant," said the other, 
 rubbing his hands, and then applying himself to his 
 black snuff-box. 
 
 "Ahem!" continued Bagsby, "Ahem! In the first 
 place, Sir, we take exception to every item paid by 
 you in forged notes, which form, with some trivial ex- 
 ceptions, the whole of what my client has received in 
 England." 
 
 "Do you call this /air?" asked the other, "he might 
 have had gold if he had chosen." 
 
 "It is legal — sound law,'* replied Bagsby, firmly, "not 
 a penny of that will we pay. — Bring your action, we 
 are ready." 
 
 The gentleman in black employed himself for a mi- 
 nute in looking over his own copy of our hero's account, 
 where he beheld sums amply sufficient, he doubted not, 
 for his purpose, which had been advanced to the unfor- 
 
110 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 tunate man in louis, napoleons, florins, crowns^ dueats, 
 &,c. &c. , among which those paid for antique statues, 
 paintings, vases, medals, &c. &c., were delightfully 
 prominent. ^ 
 
 "We will," said he, at length, "leave the legality of 
 my paper money to be discussed hereafter — or even, 
 for the sake of argument, allow your position; what 
 have you to say to the rest, advanced in hard cash, to 
 the tune of some million or so of your pounds, in France, 
 Switzerland, Holland, Germany, and Italy?' 
 
 "This comes, as 1 said before," ejaculated Mr. 
 Ledger, "of visiting Popish countries." 
 
 Let me tell you. Sir," replied Bagsby, "I have strong 
 reason to suspect that the whole were of base coin- 
 age." 
 
 "Prove it," quoth the gentleman in black, in a tone 
 of calm defiance. 
 
 The lawyer sat humming over the lots of parch- 
 ments before him, like a bee buzzing over and bussing 
 a cluster of flowers, dipping his proboscis alternately 
 into each, but settling on none. This disagreeable 
 silence was broken by Mr. Ledger, who addressed the 
 gentleman in black in a manner which somewhat 
 startled his dinginess. "Sir," said he, "you may consider 
 the matter as settled. I hold myself responsible to you 
 for the amount; and my word. Sir, is sufficient. I am 
 willing now to give you a cheque for half the sum, and 
 the remainder shall be paid as soon as my clerks, with 
 Mr. Maxwell, and our mutual friend Mr. Bagsby, shall 
 be satisfied of the accuracy of your account." 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. HI 
 
 *'Upon my word, Sir," replied the gentleman in black, 
 while his countenance assumed a decidedly bluish tint, 
 and for the first time he had recourse to his black cut- 
 glass smelling bottle in a black ebony case. "Upon my 
 word, Mr. Ledger — really. Ahem! Your way of doing 
 business is so different from what I am accustomed to, 
 that, really, upon my darkness, I don't exactly under- 
 stand it." And again he put his smelling bottle to his 
 Bose. 
 
 "We'll pay you off and close the account— draw a 
 line under your name, and so cut the connexion for 
 ever," said Ledger. 
 
 "My dearest Sir, my much honoured and highly 
 respected friend!" whispered old Bagsby, "are you seri- 
 ous? can you positively raise the wind to such a tune? 
 almost a million and a half?" 
 
 "I have said the word," replied Mr. Ledger, "write 
 out a receipt in full of all demands." 
 
 The gentleman in black hereat waxed extremely 
 fidgetty, and felt somewhat like a huge conger eel 
 which the tide has left in shallow water, among rocks, 
 and which is attempting to wriggle itself out. Mr. Max- 
 well's heart was full, and so he spake next, addressing 
 his good friend and partner Mr. Ledger, thanking him 
 most sincerely for the extraordinary offer that he had 
 made; but declining altogether to accept thereof, as, let 
 the consequence be to him what it might, he was de- 
 termined not to involve his friend in utter ruin. 
 
 "Pshaw," replied Mr. Ledger, "if you had attended 
 
112 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 the counting-house but once a year, just to look at <the 
 balance sheet,' you would know better; but this comes 
 of going abroad, and travelling in Popish countries. 
 What do you suppose I've been about with your share 
 of the concern all this while? Make yourself easy, my 
 dear Sir, for after this is all settled, we shall still be 
 found, like the beginning of our old friend's parchment 
 clauses, 'always provided, nevertheless;' " and the 
 worthy old merchant, in the pride and joy of his heart, 
 laughed at his own joke, and gave a careless glance to- 
 wards the gentleman in black, who had been employed 
 with his blackguard and his black smelling bottle, 
 snuffing and smelling, to hide his disappointed maligni- 
 ty. But, like the conger eel aforesaid, he soon shifted 
 his position, and addressing the lawyer, said, "You'll 
 please to observe. Sir, that I have not given up my 
 claim to the bank notes; I merely waived the discus- 
 sion." 
 
 ^'Remember Newgate," replied old Bagsby. 
 
 "I do," said the other, recovering himself; "and have 
 no sort of objection to pass another night there, I felt 
 myself quite at home, I assure you. But," he continued* 
 turning to Mr. Ledger, "do you mean to pay me for the 
 notes?" 
 
 The old merchant now, in his turn, looked somewhat 
 confused; but old Bagsby took up the cudgels, and re- 
 plied, "/^e will do nothing of the kind." 
 
 "I make my demand," continued the other, "and if 
 it be not complied with, you must abide the conse- 
 quences." 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 113 
 
 "And so must you," rejoined Bagsby; "let me recom- 
 mend you to accept, my good friend, the worthy Mr. 
 Ledger's offer." 
 
 "I want none of your advice," said he of the sables. 
 
 "Once more, as the mutual friend of both parties," 
 continued the lawyer, "I request you to accede to so 
 fair and honourable a proposition." 
 
 "It is neither the one nor the other," said the gentle- 
 man in black, "1 will never agree to it;" and he looked 
 round with an assumed air of carelessness in his turn. 
 The discussion was like the game of see-saw, one up 
 and the other down — but old Bagsby had yet, as he 
 whispered Mr. Ledger, his "great gun" to fire. Where- 
 fore, "attention" being called, he pulled off* his specta- 
 cles, hemmed three particularly loud hems, stiffened 
 himself as near to a perpendicular as might be, screw- 
 ed up his courage to the *'sticking.place," and, in a 
 voice as stentorian as his shrivelled, whistling old pipe 
 could compass, (sic ore locutus est) thus spake he to 
 the opposite party. 
 
 "Then, Sir, you must abide the consequences." 
 
 "With all my heart," replied the other with a sneer; 
 "do your worst." 
 
 "Very well. Sir," said old Bagsby; "then listen! I 
 shall immediately throw the whole business into Chan- 
 cery." 
 
 "Into where!" cried the gentleman in black, starting 
 upon his legs, upsetting his black snuff'-box and black- 
 guard, letting fall his black smelling-bottle, oversetting 
 k2 
 
114 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 his black bag and disarranging his blaek-edged papers, 
 while his black hair stood erect upon his head, and his 
 blackGeneva cloak swelled out rigidly behind, as though 
 thrust forth and supported by a mop-stick. 
 
 "Into Chancery," repeated old Bagsby, gravely; "Mr. 
 Ledger will pay the money into Court." 
 
 "From whence it will never come out in my time," 
 roared the gentleman in black, like a lion taken in the 
 toils. ^'No, no — I accept the merchant's offer." 
 
 "It's too late now," observed old Bagsby, sorting out 
 some papers; "I expect a Chancery barrister here im- 
 mediately." 
 
 "Then I'm off," said the other, **but remember. Sir," 
 he continued, turning to Mr. Ledger, "Your word is 
 past." 
 
 "Aye, aye," replied the wary old merchant, "and- 
 you shall be paid too — that's my way — always better 
 pay money than go to law about it. Know the worst 
 of it then. But, remember, a receipt in full of all de- 
 mands." 
 
 "Aye, aye," said the other, whose nervous system 
 was dismally affected, "I'll sign any thing." 
 
 Accordingly, much to the surprise and gratification 
 of our hero, Mr. Maxwell, the venerable old merchant 
 produced his cheque-book, and wrote a cheque for half 
 the amount; and then with exchequer bills, bonds, and 
 a tolerable variety of shares in mines, railways, gas- 
 lights, steam-washing, shaving, shearing, carding, and 
 shuffling companies, (in most of which the gentleman 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 115 
 
 who was so partial to a pinch of the blackguard, had 
 already a share) he made up the other moiety. A re- 
 gularly verbose receipt in full of all demands, was 
 drawn up by old Bagsby, and signed by the gentleman 
 in black. The bonds of sinning were then rent asun- 
 der, and committed to the flames, and, once more, Mr. 
 Maxwell breathed freely, as a free Christian ought, and 
 walked arm-and-arm with his partner into the city. 
 The gentleman in black pocketed his recovered trea- 
 sure, (minus about live hundred pounds, which Bagsby 
 deducted for stamps, &c., due from the receiver, and 
 with which his conscience would not allow him to 
 charge his clients,) and with it went upon his favour- 
 ite haunt, the Stock Exchange, where, report says, he 
 laid it out -well, by enriching some "Sir Balaams" of 
 the present day, and giving others the furor for becom- 
 ing suddenly opulent. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 While the transactions related in the last chapter 
 were in progress in London, the Comte D'Ormalle, bet- 
 ter known perhaps to the reader as Louis Desonges, 
 was rusticating at his chateau on the banks of the 
 Loire: and had become as dull and melancholy as it 
 was possible for a Frenchman to be. 
 
 One evening, being reduced absolutely "au deses- 
 poir," he was leaning upon the battlement of an ancient 
 terrace which overlooked the adjacent country for 
 many a league; and his eye rested upon a fresh object 
 at the entrance of the neighbouring town. ''AVhat can 
 it be?" thought he. In his frame of mind any sort of 
 excitement was a momentary relief: so he went for his 
 telescope: and it exhibited to him a cross of the mission, 
 recently erected in the place of one which had been 
 destroyed at the revolution. He gazed for awhile 
 thereon, and then threw himself upon a seat, and be- 
 came absorbed in thought for the space of at least five 
 minutes. "I have it," he cried at length, "I will send 
 for him immediately;" and, starting from his reverie, 
 he walked towards the chateau, for the purpose of 
 writing a note to request a visit from the abbe of the 
 adjacent monastery. 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 117 
 
 "It would be a useless exposure of yourself," observed 
 the gentleman in black, advancing from a recess where- 
 in the statue of some sylvan deity was placed, "It could 
 not possibly have any other effect than frightening the 
 old bigot out of his senses." 
 
 "Monsieur!" said Comte Louis, somewhat sternly, "I 
 am unused to interruptions of this kind. Had I wish- 
 ed for your advice, I probably might have requested 
 the honour." 
 
 "Monsieur Le Comte," replied the gentleman in 
 black, "I perceive my error, and beg to apologise; but 
 the fact is, I have lately been in England; and really 
 one's manners are apt to be influenced by the sort of 
 society with which one mixes. No one can dislike 
 their, what they call, "straight forward" manner more 
 than myself. I beg ten thousand pardons. I hope I 
 have the honour to see your Excellency in good health, 
 and that the amiable Comtesse and your dear young 
 people are well." 
 
 Although there was little in all this, yet there was 
 something so graceful in the manner of the dark elder- 
 ly gentleman, who, by the by, appeared not a day older 
 than when they first became acquainted, that the Comte 
 changed his tone, and politely requested him to walk 
 into the chateau. Indeed there arose a vague hope 
 within him, that he might be able to make some sort of 
 fresh agreement, and mystify his dark ally; for he had, 
 at one period, dipped a little into the arts of Gallic di- 
 plomacy. But it seems that he was not an adept, or 
 
118 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 else that the gentleman in black was mor^ deeply- 
 versed in the science; for, after half an hour's conver- 
 sation, he still, like Shylock, seemed averse to speaking 
 of any terms not specified in the bond. 
 
 **Then," said Comte Louis, "I shall instantly apply 
 to the church, for there is no time to spare." 
 
 The gentleman in black shrugged up his shoulders 
 and took snuff, and politely handed his black box to 
 the Comte, who had no sooner partaken of its contents, 
 than he remembered some very fine old hock which 
 was in his cellar: and forthwith the two allies began a 
 sort of carouse, and the Comte's spirits became unusu- 
 ally elevated. 
 
 "You may rely upon it," said the dark gentleman, 
 "that good old wine is the most certain cure for lowness 
 of spirits. I really feel myself much better already. 
 Don't you?' 
 
 "Why," replied the Comte, "I cannot say but what 
 I feel a sort of a kind of a " 
 
 "Precisely so," added the gentleman in black, "and 
 so, as you were saying about the Comtesse " 
 
 "Excuse me," said Louis, "I did not mention her 
 name." 
 
 "It's all the same thing," observed the other, ''you 
 were thinking of her. The bottle stands with you! 
 The fact is, that she has all the benefit of the contract. 
 You really don't spend anything yourself; and it would 
 save a vast deal of trouble if she were able to make 
 use of the black morocco pocket-book herself. If you 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 119 
 
 will obtain her signature to this" (here he produced a 
 small black-edged scroll, tied with black tape) "it 
 might be a great accommodation to all parties. But 
 the bottle stands with you! It's a mere matter of form, 
 but really it would oblige me: and to convince you of 
 my friendship, I pledge myself to require not a single 
 moment of sin from you for the next seven years, if you 
 will merely do me the favour to tell her to sign her 
 name just here. Nothing can be more liberal!" 
 
 "Seven years!" repeated the Comte, "hem — seven 
 years — there's something in that!" and he filled his 
 glass and tossed it off. "Seven years — eh — well! Let 
 me see, what is it that I am to do?" 
 
 "Nothing more," replied the gentleman in black, 
 "than, as she is your wife, to tell her to put her name 
 to this paper." 
 
 "You may as well put it in your pocket again," said 
 the Comte, sighing, "she has not done anything that I 
 have told her to do for these ten years." 
 
 "Bah!" ejaculated the gentleman in black, "that 
 comes of your never refusing to pay her bills. Break 
 down her carriages, and get somebody to burn her lace; 
 and then stop the supplies, and I will engage — The 
 bottle stands with you! I'll engage that she'll sign 
 anything rather than be without those indispensable 
 articles." 
 
 "Hem," said the Comte, "there may be something in 
 that — (hiccup)— You are a devilish, knowing, extraor- 
 dinary, dark, old, elderly, gentleman, and I protest that 
 the idea of the lace is excellent! I'll burn it all myself." 
 
120 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "And ril engage to find plenty more," observed the 
 gentleman of the black silk purse, "for, to tell the 
 truth, I was the original inventor. She'll not be the 
 first woman whom I have caught in that sort of a net. 
 Ha, ha! You'll excuse the pun!" 
 
 The Comte's recollection was not now perfectly 
 clear: but it seems that he took the black-edged paper, 
 and put it into his black morocco pocket-book, and, 
 shortly after, fell asleep. 
 
 The next day he departed for Paris; and on his arri- 
 val, was informed that the Comtesse had joined a party 
 of her father's friends in an excursion to Fontainebleau. 
 Thus compelled to remain in inaction, he began to feel 
 doubtful whether his once mild and gentle Emilie 
 might be persuaded to favour him with her signature. 
 He felt that she was an altered being, and little 
 like the lovely partner of his walks by Lake Leman's 
 side: but there arose within him a painful conviction, 
 that he had not been altogether without change himself; 
 and then he began to indulge in reminiscences, which 
 ended in the ejaculation, "Poor Emilie!" and he re- 
 solved, at all events, to delay his intended solicitations 
 for her signature, and see, in the meanwhile, if any- 
 thing could be accomplished, in his favour, by the 
 church. 
 
 The summons of M. Le Comte D'Ormalle had not 
 long left his hotel, ere there appeared before him, in 
 consequence thereof, "a little, round, fat, oily man of 
 God," Dodun by name, a zealous ecclesiastic, who was 
 
THB GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 121 
 
 always happy to wait upon both poor and rich, parti- 
 cularly the latter. He entered Comte Louis's apart- 
 ment with a most benignant and refreshing smile, and 
 bowed as gracefully as it was possible for such a droll 
 little body to bow; and then, obeying the waving of 
 the Comte's hand, deposited himself upon a chair. But 
 he had not sat long thereon, listening to Louis's account 
 of the past, ere his "too solid flesh" began, as it were, 
 to "melt and dissolve itself into a dew;" and, withal, he 
 trembled exceedingly, for he, like old Bagsby, consi- 
 dered the thing to be "ah ugly piece of business." 
 
 He, however, had been brought up in a very differ- 
 ent school from that in which the crafty old lawyer 
 had acquired his resources, and was utterly unable to 
 divine how the Comte might be "pulled through." So 
 he sat, gasping for awhile, looking unutterable things, 
 and then rose up, or rather slid down, from his chair, 
 and commenced a retreat by no means so graceful as 
 his entrance. 
 
 "The old fellow was right," sighed Comte Louis to 
 himself, "I have merely frightened the bigot out of his 
 senses, and rendered myself no sort of service — ^but, 
 apropos — " and he recollected that, in all former diffi- 
 culties, gold had effected his desired purpose. So he 
 forthwish apologized to the poor ecclesiastic for having 
 introduced the subject without a proper prelude; and 
 told him that he could not, of course, expect the inter- 
 ference of the church, before he should prove himself 
 a dutiful son; and moreover, that, as he had immense 
 
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122 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 sums at his command, he thought that the erection of 
 a church, or an abbey, or the redemption of some of 
 the church lands, might be acceptable as a token of his 
 sincerity. 
 
 At these words the retrograde movements of the 
 worthy priest were suspended, and he seemed much 
 impressed by such evidences of sincere contrition: and, 
 anon, he ventured to resume his seat, and the Comte 
 prevailed upon him to eat a biscuit, and take a glass of 
 champagne, and to become the bearer of a few rou- 
 leaux "pour les pauvres.*' 
 
 Poor Dodun was unused to champagne; he had 
 never before been the bearer of so much money, nor 
 ever before sat tete a tete with a peer of France, or any 
 rnan capable of building abbies and cathedrals at his 
 own expense; and, certainly he had never before 
 heard such a tale about the gentleman in black. Each 
 of these causes might have wrought somewhat upon 
 him; but their united effects produced a singular con- 
 fusion of intellect, insomuch that he took leave of the 
 Comte with many expressions of respect, and a series of 
 rolling bows, during the enactment of which he averred 
 that the power of the church was immense; that he 
 was an unworthy and humble son thereof: but, yet, M. 
 le Comte might rely upon him; a-nd that, in short, he 
 would repeat his visit on the morrow. 
 
 The bewildered priest told, that night, to his supe- 
 rior, a most wondrous tale, concerning the probable 
 erection of a new abbey, and the visible bodily appear- 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 123 
 
 ance of the gentleman in black, at which the said supe- 
 rior shook his head, and seemed greatly scandalized, 
 and commanded brother Dodun to retire incontinently 
 to his cell: and brother Dodun retired accordingly, 
 and was grievously troubled in his dreams until the 
 morning, when he endeavoured to persuade himself 
 that the whole affair was a dream altogether; and 
 probably might have succeeded, but for the presence 
 of the rouleaux, which bore too weighty an evidence to 
 the contrary. So he took them to his superior, who, 
 notwithstanding the irregular proceedings of the last 
 evening, received them and their bearer with great 
 benignity; for brother Dodun was, as his inclination to 
 obesity indicated, a pleasant and harmless sort of fel- 
 low, and, withal, an agreeable companion when the 
 brotherhood met in the refectory, and one who under- 
 stood the meaning of "desipere in loco." 
 
 When, however, the poor fellow repeated his tale, 
 the dignitary's countenance underwent a considerable 
 change; and he called for holy water and a pair of 
 scales, wherewith the pieces of gold were scrutinized, 
 and each found to be perfectly "comme il faut." 
 
 "We have no right to refuse that which is given 
 'pour les pauvres,' " said the abbe, "let it come from 
 where it may.'' 
 
 Dodun bowed assent. 
 
 "As for this Comte D'Ormalle," continued the other, 
 "I feel it to be my duty to wait upon him myself. It 
 appears to me that he is much to be pitied; and, I have 
 no doubt, is a verv amiable man." 
 
124 THE GENTt-EMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 The abb6, consequently, paid his respects to our he- 
 ro, and told him that it was an ugly piece of business; 
 but that the church was very powerful, and that he 
 was an humble son thereof; yet that, nevertheless, he 
 should not despair, but immediately proceed to consi- 
 der the case. 
 
 "In the meanwhile I should advise," said he, *'that 
 M. le Comte would take into consideration the state of 
 the chapel of Notre Dame de * * * which is really in 
 such a state of dilapidation, that the faithful are in a 
 perilous situation.'' 
 
 "Might I ask the favour of your becoming my almo- 
 ner in such a case?" asked the Comte, taking sundry 
 billets de Banque from his black morocco book; "I re- 
 quest it as a favour; for upon my honour, I understand 
 nothing of architecture." 
 
 The abbe condescended to grant the boon, and not- 
 withstanding his numerous engagements, promised to 
 see that the money was properly laid out: and then he 
 went his way, well pleased with the result of his morn- 
 ing visit. 
 
 But the business in hand was of too great importance 
 to be settled by an abbe; therefore the abbe went to 
 his bishop, and communicated the interesting particu- 
 lars of the case; whereupon the bishop, who was some- 
 what advanced in years, and moreover of "la vielle 
 cour," crossed himself in divers directions, and shook 
 his head, while his whole body vibrated in unison there- 
 unto. When he was somewhat recovered, he gave it 
 
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 as his opinion that such transactions had been but too 
 common during the revolution, and in the absence of 
 the Bourbons. 
 
 "We must take time to consider and examine into 
 the case," said he, "it will probably throw some new 
 light upon many of the affairs of that dark period of our 
 national history, when religion existed scarcely even in 
 name. As for the Comte D'Ormalle, I have no doubt, 
 from what you state, that he is a very good subject, 
 and a very amiable man. Indeed I feel much interest- 
 ed in his situation, and shall make a point of calling 
 upon him; therefore, Monsieur L'Abbe, you need not give 
 yourself any further uneasiness or trouble in the affair. 
 What you have done is exceedingly proper and judi- 
 cious — you may now leave the case with me." 
 
 The bishop forthwith ordered his carriage, and paid 
 a visit to our hero, who, malgr6 the honour thus be- 
 stowed upon him, felt a little annoyed at the transfer, 
 from hand to hand, of his somewhat urgent business. 
 The bishop, however, conducted himself with the most 
 courtly politeness, and assured him, upon his honour, 
 that it was a very ugly piece of business; but that the 
 power of the church was immense, and that, though he 
 himself was only an humble individual son thereof, he 
 would nevertheless, take upon himself to counsel the 
 G)mte not to despair, particularly as he was possessed 
 of the means of doing good. 
 
 "There never, my dear Mons. Le Comte," continued 
 he, " was a time when so many opportunities of evinc- 
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126 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 ing sincere contrition presented themselves. The sa- 
 crilegious estrangement of the church lands from their 
 original pious and charitable owners, is a crying national 
 evil. I think thereof frequently with alarm. There is an 
 abbey now, which I have the best means of knowing 
 the value of! It is on the banks of the Loire, and 
 formerly its revenues amounted to more than one hun- 
 dred thousand livres; but now they are merely nominal, 
 some few hundreds, perhaps, as the best and largest 
 portion of the land has been sold and re-sold half a 
 dozen times, and changed its name as often; and now, 
 I am told it belongs to some upstart parvenu of the revo- 
 lution, who bought himself a chateau and title some- 
 where in Germany, I forget the name, Braanks-some- 
 thing, but that's of little consequence. We have made 
 some overtures to his agent, because it seems that the 
 fellow himself never troubles his head about busi- 
 ness. However, I won't trespass on your time, Mons. 
 Le Comte. I merely throw out a hint: nothing can 
 render the church more essential service than the re- 
 demption of her lands. It is far better than wasting 
 money on buildings w^hich must come to decay, whereas 
 land will always, if well managed, produce the means 
 of supporting the establishment respectably in all its 
 departments. I merely offer the suggestion; you will 
 reflect upon it. As for the estate I mentioned; — really 
 I am getting old — 1 have forgotten the name; but, if 
 you can devise how any thing can be effected; it matters 
 little to me individually. At my time of life, and with the 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 127 
 
 accumulated and important duties of my arduous oflSce, 
 one has other matters to think of; but my secretary can 
 furnish you with particulars. I will have the honour of 
 waiting upon you again in a few days; and, in the mean- 
 while, will take your singular case into consideration." 
 
 Had the Bishop mentioned any other estate in France, 
 probably the Comte would have immediately advanced 
 the money for the purchase thereof; but his cTiateau on 
 the banks of the Loire, with all the improvements and 
 plantations thereon and thereabout, which were the 
 work of his own head and hands; the "Babylon which 
 he had built;" the place where, he trusted, that his 
 sons and his sons' sons, for many generations, would 
 dwxU long and respected, in happy ignorance of the 
 manner in which the family estate was acquired; that, 
 and the thousand dreams thereon dependent, were too 
 dear to be parted from in a moment. 
 
 "Beside," thought the Comte to himself, "I know not 
 if the sacrifice would benefit me in the least. In all 
 probability the old bishop would act like the abbe and 
 the monk; and, having effected his own immediate pur- 
 pose, hand me over to some archbishop or cardinal, 
 who, in his turn, might transfer me to the inquisition 
 or the Pope." 
 
 Possibly the Comte's "amour propre" might have 
 been somewhat wounded by the epithets used by the 
 bishop. No man likes to be called a parvenu: and few 
 dislike the term more than the man who has lately 
 mounted a coronet. When left to himself, he again 
 
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 began to reflect. The idea of going to England had 
 frequently occurred to him before; for, to do him jus- 
 tice, he had not entirely forgotten his former j^outhful 
 friend, Charles Maxwell; he had, however, generally 
 given up the scheme as hopeless, from a notion of the 
 impossibility of finding an individual in a country where 
 there are no passports, even if his friend were in Eng- 
 land; but it had been represented to him, that all our 
 countrymen, who were possessed of adequate means, 
 or who were not engaged in some office^ were travelling 
 and scattered abroad in all quarters of the globe. 
 
 "No doubt," said he to himself, "Maxwell is yet liv- 
 ing, has bought some unpronounceable title, and is now 
 roaming through Mesopotamia, or Siberia, or China, or 
 Timbuctoo, or Terra del Fuego, or to the North Pole. 
 One might as well think of finding the wandering Jew 
 as a wandering Englishman. But "c'est egal!" I may 
 as well go to London as remain here while the bishop 
 is taking "my singular case into consideration." How- 
 ever, I will first see Emilie and the children." 
 
 Accordingly he went to see his children that day; 
 and, if we wrote for the purpose of exciting the com- 
 passionate feelings of our readers, we should describe 
 the particulars of his interview with each. As it is, 
 suffice it to say, that, ere they parted, he pressed them 
 to his bosom, bent over them and sighed; and, as his 
 sumptuous equipage rolled back with him into Paris, 
 he hid his face in his hands, groaned in spirit and wept 
 bitterly. 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 129 
 
 Yet when his carriage was stopped, for a few mo- 
 ments, in the Boulevards, by a crowd collected round 
 a bear and three well dressed monkies, the Comte D'Or- 
 malle's head issued therefrom, and he applauded their 
 apeish tricks in great apparent glee, and threw a louis 
 to the Savoyard, and was, in return, applauded by the 
 populace, who made way for his carriage, and shouted 
 *'Vive Monsieur Le Due!" 
 
 Next day the Comtesse came back from Fontaine- 
 bleau, accompanied by her most perpendicular father, 
 the Comte de Tien a la Cour, the abbe Beueton, his 
 now constant companion, and some half dozen of that 
 highly favoured class which most do congregate about 
 the precincts of a court, pluming and glorifying them- 
 selves in the name of ancestors, who would most as- 
 suredly, if allowed to revisit "the precincts of the cheer- 
 ful day," be specially ashamed of their posterity. It 
 seems that the whole party were particularly fond of 
 "news," or, as we familiarly say, "gossipping;" a sci- 
 ence which, with the usual adjuncts of "envy, hatred, 
 malice, and all uncharitableness," flourisheth greatly 
 among those who are somewhat curtailed in their 
 means, but who have, or fancy they have, great claims 
 and pretensions to respect and consideration. 
 
 The Abbe Beueton was an excellent jackall for these 
 soi-disant lions; and he had scarcely been an hour in 
 Paris, ere he picked up some shreds and patches of the 
 Comte* D'Ormalle's * singular case" from the brethren 
 of brother Dodun, who was reported to have seen 
 
130 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 divers strange visions, and lo have uttered sundry mar- 
 vellous and portentous outcries during his feverish 
 slumbers. 
 
 These "odds and ends," the Abbe Beueton, as in 
 duty bound, related, in confidence, to his patron, the 
 Comte de Tien a la Cour, who saw fit to extend that 
 confidence to his valet, charging him to examine more 
 particularly into the business, and to report progress at 
 the next sitting. The valet whispered thereof into the 
 ear of the Comtesse's waiting woman, who was quite 
 shocked at the idea of something dreadful, she knew 
 not what; and her imagination and fear were extremely 
 active during the brief interval, which expired between 
 the communication of the valet, and her being sum- 
 moned to attend the Comtesse. 
 
 "What's the matter with you, Lisette?" asked her 
 mistress, "you look as if you had been overturned. Did 
 the carriage break down? where was it? Has Blousseau 
 brought home that dress yet? There — that silk, you 
 see, is all manner of colours. They have lost the art 
 of dyeing, I think, or the sun is getting nearer the earth. 
 Ah! that's it. I remember Monsieur Salamander's lec- 
 ture — we shall all be broiled. Don't you think so? 
 Why don't you speak?" 
 
 "I'm afraid we shall," said Lisette, "but it's a good 
 thing to have a clear conscience. Indeed I should be 
 very sorry to leave so good a mistress, but, here he 
 comes!" and she began muttering a prayer and hand- 
 ling a crucifix, as she saw her master cross the court. 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 131 
 
 "What can ail the silly girl?' exclaimed the Com- 
 tesse, "tell me, Lisette, speak out! you terrify me!" 
 
 "I am terrified myself," sobbed Lisette, "oh, the vir- 
 gin! who would have thought it? So nice a gentle- 
 man!" 
 
 "Who? what — what are you talking about? I insist 
 on knowing," said the Comtesse. 
 
 Lisette forthwith revealed all she had heard, and a 
 little more; whereby it appeared that the Comte was 
 haunted by sorte evil spirit, and the Comtesse averred 
 that she felt no doubt the report was perfectly true, 
 for she had written to him. twice for money, and he had 
 taken no notice of her letters. 
 
 "I am glad you bear it so well," observed Lisette; 
 **for my own part, if the devil was my husband, I 
 should go mad." 
 
 "You are mad already, I think," replied the Comtesse. 
 
 "Oh, no, indeed,'^ said Lisette, "1 wish I was; but 
 it's all true. For you know, my lady, where an evil 
 spirit has got into a man, they are all one, and there- 
 fore" 
 
 "Nonsense. Then all men are devils," added the 
 Comtesse. 
 
 "Very likely," observed Lisette, looking demure, "I 
 anv not married, however, to one, that's some comfort." 
 
 "Nay, then, said the Comtesse, "if you are thankful 
 because you are not married, something very strange 
 indeed must have happened to you; so, sit down like a 
 good girl, and tell me all you have heard." 
 
132 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 Lisette had no more to tell; but thus commanded, 
 she repeated what she had said before, with certain al- 
 terations and additions tending to support her theory, 
 that when a devil had possession of a man, the said 
 man was thereby transformed into a devil. The Com- 
 tesse, who had never before known the want of money 
 since her marriage, had been not a little nettled at her 
 lord's neglect, and felt previously disposed to confer up- 
 on him the benefit of conjugal discipline; so being a 
 good Catholic, she now resolved to commence with the 
 new and extraordinary accusation against him, which 
 had just met her ear. 
 
 When she entered the apartment in which the 
 Comte was sitting, although they had not been sepa- 
 rated for more than three months, he arose and has- 
 tened towards her with almost lover-like alacrity, and 
 was much surprised at her recoiling from his embrace. 
 
 "My dear Emilie," said he, what ails you?" 
 
 "Oh, Louis! Louis!" exclaimed she, raising her hand- 
 kerchief to her eyes, "how dreadfully you have de- 
 ceived me! Are you not ashamed to look me in the 
 face?" 
 
 "Ashamed, Madam!" exclaimed the Comte, "may I 
 be permitted to have the honour of inquiring what you 
 Can possibly mean?" 
 
 "May I," asked the Comtesse, drawing herself up into 
 as commanding an attitude as might be, "may I be 
 permitted to have the honour of inquiring who you 
 arel" 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 133 
 
 "Who I am!" ejaculated the Comte, and glancing 
 aside at a mirror, as though, for the moment, dubious 
 of his own identity. * 
 
 "Yes," said the Comtesse, "who you*are. Tell me, 
 who are you?" and she held her handkerchief and fan 
 with as much formality as, in ancient paintings, kings 
 and queens uphold the insignia of royalty, for she had 
 resolved to get up a scene. 
 
 "Really, Madam," replied the Comte, "there is 
 something utterly incomprehensible, I had almost said 
 ridiculous, in all this. Will you do me the favour to 
 explain?" 
 
 "No, Sir," was the reply, "the explanation must 
 come from you. Once more I ask you, who are you? 
 what do you call yourself?" 
 
 "I beg to be excused from making any reply," said 
 he, somewhat haughtily, for a sudden thought struck 
 him. He had heard of ladies who, when enervated by 
 the fatigues of dissipation, were in the habit of reviving 
 their drooping spirits by Eau de Cologne, Rosolio, &c. 
 &c., and sometimes by accident, mistaking the proper 
 quantity. It was a painful and degrading reflection, 
 but he could not tell otherwise how to account for a 
 lady's not knowing her own husband. Therefore he 
 likewise drew himself up into an erect position, and 
 added in a cold and constrained manner, "it is quite 
 useless, Emilie — Madame, to continue this conversation 
 nozc. To-morrow, perhaps, you will be more yourself; 
 
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134 THE GENTLEMAW IN BLACK. 
 
 at present, you are evidently under the influence of — 
 of" 
 
 "Of— of what?" exclaimed the Comtesse, reddening 
 with anger. * 
 
 "Oh! nothing — nothing," replied the Comte, cava- 
 lierly; "I suppose it is the fashion, Madame — only of — 
 of— evil spirits." 
 
 "I possessed by evil spirits!" ejaculated the Comtesse. 
 You are pleased to be facetious, Monsieur! But no! I 
 will not be turned from my purpose. Listen! (here the 
 lady assumed what was intended to be an awe-imposing 
 attitude) listen and know, wretched man! that thy se- 
 cret is discovered." 
 
 "What do you mean?" exclaimed the Comte, and a 
 sudden qualm rushed across his mind, as he thought 
 that between the monk, and the abbe, and the bishop, 
 and the bishop's secretary, and all their official and 
 confidential friends, it was barely possible. The con- 
 sequence was a visible agitation, and an involuntary 
 ejaculation of "Le Dibble!" 
 
 "Precisely so," said the Comtesse; and the Comte 
 was convinced, by that phrase, that the gentleman in 
 black had betrayed him. "Yes," continued the Com- 
 tesse, **Le Diable, indeed! That is the very thing. I 
 know all about it." 
 
 "Then, Madame," said the Comte, after some hesita- 
 tion, "you cannot but pity me. You must be aware 
 that I have, hitherto, concealed the truth from you, 
 merely to save your feelings, and that I have made use 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 135 
 
 of my wealth and consequent power to promote your 
 happiness." 
 
 Here the lady was quite overwhelmed by the vio- 
 lence of contending emotions; for she had only pretend- 
 ed to believe Lisette's tale for the purpose of producing 
 effect. Now, however, her husband had, as it seemed, 
 confessed his devilhood; and, therefore, on that hint 
 she spake, and called him by a great variety of names, 
 and vowed that she had been entrapped, and deceived, 
 and most exceedingly ill-used, and withal that she had 
 always suspected that there was something very mys- 
 terious about him. 
 
 It would seem that the habit of having her own way 
 for so many years had changed the Comtesse when de- 
 livering her sentiments; and her spouse could not help 
 comparing the cutting vituperations, to which it was 
 his fate to be now exposed, with the silvery tones of his 
 beloved Emilie before marriage; and he rashly ventur- 
 ed to say something thereupon. The consequence was 
 a repetition of the epithets before mentioned, with the 
 addition of a few more which happened to occur to the 
 Comtesse's recollection; and the whole was terminated 
 by something very like hysterics, (but not precisely so, 
 for the Comtesse was not much given to nervous affec- 
 tions, and the angry avowal, that had she known or 
 suspected the truth, notwithstanding his riches, rather 
 than have married him, she would have seen him in 
 the very worst and deepest part of a very bad place, 
 that shall be nameless here. 
 
136 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 <«I don't believe a word of it," said the Comte, who 
 felt somewhat exasperated in his turn. 
 
 "Don't you, Monsieur Diablel" exclaimed the in- 
 censed Comtesse; *'but you shall see that I have a spirit; 
 for I vow, that you shall never see my face again;" and, 
 with these words, she rushed out of the room. 
 
 Whether the lady meant this as somewhat more 
 than a mere lover's vow, or whether the Comte really 
 believed she would keep it, can scarcely be ascertain- 
 ed; for she instantly began to collect some unpaid bills, 
 respecting which she had been lately annoyed; and he, 
 immediately on being left alone, took a pinch of snuff, 
 shrugged up his shoulders, and observed that "something 
 worse might have happened;" and then summoned his 
 valet, and ordered him to prepare for a journey to 
 England, which he had resolved to commence im^ 
 TTiediately. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 When the Comte arrived in London, he found no 
 difficulty in obtaining the address of his quondam youth- 
 ful friend, Mr. Maxwell; and their meeting was such 
 as might be expected between two persons who have 
 frequently, during a protracted separation, thought 
 upon the days of "auld lang syne." 
 
 Comte Louis listened to the particulars of his brother 
 bondsman's escape with a degree of patience which is 
 seldom bestowed upon long stories: and was not the 
 less anxious for an introduction to old Bagsby, because 
 he could not exactly comprehend the nature of the 
 threatened chancery suit, with which that ancient limb 
 of the law had so effectually alarmed the gentleman in 
 black. 
 
 The two friends accordingly repaired forthwith to 
 Lyon's Inn, where they found the lean veteran at his 
 post, and received that sort of welcome which rich 
 clients usually experience from experienced legal ad- 
 visers. 
 
 Mr. Maxwell introduced the Comte and his business: 
 and the Comte himself endeavoured to elucidate the 
 subject; but he spoke such an odd sort of English, as 
 might have tended to perplex any one, except an old 
 
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138 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 lawyer, who had lived more than half a century in the 
 midst of botheration and intricate investigation. 
 
 "JHumph!" said the man of parchment, after patient- 
 ly listening to his client's statement, "Humph! This 
 is an ugly piece of business!" and he pulled off his 
 spectacles, and laid them on the table, and threw him- 
 self back in his chair, and projected his under Hp, and 
 began to pull it with the forefinger and thumb of his 
 left hand, while the two friends, but more particularly 
 the Comte, watched his motions with no small degree 
 of anxiety, and a most profound and respectful silence. 
 
 After a brief pause, there appeared a gleam of cun- 
 ning exultation lighted up in the old fellow's eye; and 
 his wrinkled mouth, in spite of the hold upon the under 
 lip, pursed itself into somewhat like a corresponding 
 smile. Divers other contortions followed, such as one 
 might suppose to have been in fashion among the Sy- 
 bils; and, at length, he spoke oracularly. 
 
 "Humph! this is an ugly piece of business! But, 
 however. Sir, if you will put yourself entirely in my 
 hands, and follow my directions implicitly, I think we 
 need not despair. Indeed I have no doubt we shall be 
 able to pull you through." 
 
 "Est il possible!" exclaimed the Comte, "my dear 
 Sir! What a fool I have been to waste my time in 
 parleying with ignorant monks and priests, instead of 
 coming to you! I am perfectly enchanted and aston- 
 ished at your abilities! It is a disgrace to your highly 
 polished and polite nation that you are not Lord Chan- 
 cellor!" 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 139 
 
 We have here given the substance, rather than the 
 words of Monsieur Le Comte D'Ormalle, and mean, 
 during the recital of what happened to him in England, 
 to adopt the same plan, inasmuch as, if we were to re- 
 peat his Gallicisms, the effect produced might be some- 
 what too light and ludicrous for the serious nature of 
 our tale. It is not to be expected in any case that fo- 
 reigners can speak like natives. Indeed, the gentle- 
 man in black had told our heroes many years before, 
 when they were commencing their travels, that, not- 
 withstanding his friendship and wish to oblige them, he 
 could not assist them in that particular. 
 
 "For," said he, "in spite of the constant intercourse 
 which I have with various nations, the continual altera- 
 tions in idioms and phraseology: and the coining and 
 changing of words are such, that I am frequently puz- 
 zled myself." 
 
 In the present case, however, the Comte's bad Eng- 
 lish was of little importance, since most persons can 
 understand flattering speeches, however indifferently 
 they may be expressed. 
 
 Bagsby, therefore, bowed his acknowledgments, and 
 muttered somewhat about its being a man's duty to be 
 satisfied, if "in these times he could get bread and 
 cheese, and make both ends meet." 
 
 Mr. Maxwell, who had now, under the instruction of 
 his father's old friend and servant, Mr. Ledger, become 
 somewhat like a man of business, requested Bagsby to 
 communicate his plan for the discomfiture of the gen- 
 tleman in black: and the Comte, having declared, upon 
 
140 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 his honour, that he would act, in every respect, as he 
 should be directed, the man of law made him produce 
 his black morocco book, and compare some of the notes 
 therein with others which were in the office, and which 
 had been brought directly from the bank. 
 
 Spectacles and magnifying glasses were used, but the 
 trio were unable to discover the smallest difference; 
 and Bagsby could not refrain from heaving a sigh at 
 the recollection of the toil and difficulty which he had 
 fexperienced in amassing the few he was able to call his 
 own; while the Comte had only to open his book and 
 take out any number he thought fit. He knew that 
 there was not a word about interest mentioned in the 
 bond, and strange visions came over his mind, of the 
 immense profits which, with his knowledge of things in 
 general, he could make of an unlimited capital under 
 such circumstances. "I'd be bound very shortly to pay 
 the dingy gentleman his principal," thought he, *'and 
 realize a handsome fortune." And again he sighed and 
 appeared for a few seconds, lost in a reverie, from which 
 he was aroused by Mr. Maxwell, who said that he had 
 business in the city, and must be moving. 
 
 The lean limb of the law forthwith began to unfold 
 part of his plan, and instructed the Comte to purchase 
 bullion and foreign specie with the notes aforesaid. 
 *'We will never," said he, "allow any of the forgeries 
 to be carried to account against you by the gentleman 
 in question; and you may very shortly, in this way, 
 realize a sufficient sum to set all straight with the old 
 fellow." 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 141 
 
 The Comte was highly delighted with the scheme, 
 and immediately commenced operations, by going into 
 the city and buying, at a somewhat apparently dear 
 rate, divers weighty packages of napoleons, louis d'ors, 
 &c. &c.: and, when the market was somewhat thin- 
 ned of gold, he began to speculate in silver. 
 
 These transactions, which we here briefly relate, oc- 
 cupied many days, and caused a rise of no small mag- 
 nitude in the prices of gold and silver bullion. Indeed 
 the subsequent scarcity of the precious metals through- 
 out the British empire, and the depreciation of paper 
 money, respecting which so many opaque pamphlets 
 were written, have been supposed by some to date 
 their origin from these and similar transactions. That 
 is to say, from endeavours to pay the gentleman in 
 black, what appeared to be his due. 
 
 In the mean while he did not remain idle. The de- 
 mands of the Comte D'Ormalle upon the black morocco 
 leather pocket-book, were too frequent to escape the 
 notice of so nice a calculator; and, after some inquiry, 
 finding how matters were going on, he called upon 
 Bagsby, and had a long private interview with him, 
 during which it is said that high words past between 
 them: but the exact particulars never transpired. 
 
 The immediate result, however, was, that old Jerry 
 was despatched with a letter to the Comte, desiring 
 him instantly to change his quarters, and take lodgings 
 in some retired part of the town, and, on no account 
 whatsoever, to show himself in public. 
 
 With the former part of this advice his client in- 
 
142 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 stantly complied, being assisted in his research for a 
 snug retreat by Mr. Maxwell: but, alas! all men have 
 their weak sides; and there are certain pleasures so be- 
 witching and fascinating to us all, in our turn, that 
 even the dread of the gentleman in black himself, is 
 not sufficiently powerful to deter us from the enjoyment 
 thereof. 
 
 The Comte found it utterly impossible to absent him- 
 self from the opera: and, having made up his mind to 
 go, he found little difficulty in persuading- himself that 
 he should be as completely concealed in the midst of a 
 crowded audience, as in his own lodgings. Therefore 
 he went to see his countryman. Monsieur Piaffeur, 
 achieve a complicated dance with the two Mademoi- 
 selles Rebatins; and was so delighted with the perform- 
 ance of the trio, that he could not avoid exclaiming, 
 "Superbe et magnifique! Bravo! et encore!" 
 
 Some half score pair of eyes were immediately turn- 
 ed toward the enthusiastic applauder, who, with a 
 chilly and uncomfortable feeling, recognised among 
 them those of an old acquaintance, who had formerly 
 sported a pompadour coat in the Palais Royal. 
 
 The Comte, who was considered somewhat of a pro- 
 ficient in the art, resolved to "cut"him,andaccording- 
 ingly armed himself with his snufF-box and eye-glass, 
 and acted his part "a merveille," gazing as unconsci- 
 ously as possible at the individual in question, and then 
 turned away to look at something else, with an express- 
 ive shrug of the shoulders, which said, as plainly ^s 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 143 
 
 shrug could speak, "No, Sir, I certainly have never 
 had the honour of being introduced to you." 
 
 But the gentleman ini)lack, instead of being put out 
 of countenance, seemed much diverted by this display 
 of sang froid, and forthwith repeated the poor Comte's 
 exclamation, "Superbe et magnifique! Bravo! encore!" 
 
 Whereupon the Frenchman again hoisted his shoul- 
 ders, and said "Bourgeois!" and redoubled his eflforts to 
 appear perfectly at ease, and consequently drew upon 
 himself a double share of notice. 
 
 Now it happened, fortunately, that Mr. Maxwell 
 was at the opera that night; and it was yet more for- 
 tunate that his attention was drawn to the spot, where 
 this little scene was enacted in the pit. He had be- 
 come, as we have observed before, under Mr. Ledger's 
 tuition, somewhat of a man of business, and, therefore, 
 he knew that delays were dangerous, so he instantly 
 despatched a friend who was in the box with him, to 
 summon old Bagsby to the seat of action, feeling, no 
 doubt, that the gentleman in black was contemplating 
 a coup de main: and it was well that he did so, for the 
 lean and learned man of law arrived just in time to 
 witness the caption of his client by Messieurs Tappem 
 and Grumps, two of the legal "operatives" on such ser- 
 vices, who acted under the orders of Mr. Micros Crabs- 
 eye, of whom we have had occasion formerly to speak. 
 
 Mr. Maxwell offered bail to any amount in behalf of 
 his friend; but Mr. Crabseye declared bail to be quite 
 inadmissible, as the prisoner's offence was of a capital 
 nature. "Indeed," said he, "if it were not so, and the 
 
144 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 proofs were much less plain, there have been so many- 
 forged notes in the market lately, that it is Our duty to 
 the public, as well as to ourselves, to make an example 
 whenever we have it in our power." 
 
 "Humph!" coughed Bagsby, whose presence then 
 was first perceived, "Humph! this is an ugly piece of 
 business! But," he whispered to the Comte, "keep up 
 your spirits! I have no doubt that we shall be able to 
 pull you through." 
 
 "Who sent for you?" exclaimed the gentleman in 
 black, who appeared much ruffled and forgetful of his 
 habitual politeness, at this unexpected and unwelcome 
 apparition of one of the very few persons in the world, 
 by whom he had been outwitted. 
 
 "What's that to you?" asked Bagsby, with the sa«ie 
 degree of urbanity, "If you had agreed to my reason- 
 able proposition, and let me have a pocket-book " 
 
 "Pshaw!" exclaimed the gentleman of the black 
 books, interrupting him, "Reasonable, indeed! I'm not 
 such a fool as to pay a high price for what I'm sure of 
 getting for nothing. No, no," and he began to laugh at 
 his own joke, as was very customary with him, and to 
 take snufF with great glee, while Bagsby appeared to 
 be trembling with passion, and literally foaming at the 
 mouth. 
 
 "We can't waste our time," said Mr. Micros Crabs- 
 eye, "Come Tappem! Come Grumps! Do your duty." 
 
 "There is no occasion for violence," said Mr. Maxwell. 
 '♦Let the gentleman be treated according to his station 
 •in life, which is that of a peer of France." 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 145 
 
 Messrs. Tappem and Grumps receded two steps at 
 this information, but kept their eyes steadfastly upon 
 the prisoner, while Mr. Crabseye very inelegantly re- 
 marked, that it was all gammon and humbug, and that 
 he had no notion of foreign counts and marquesses. 
 
 The scene had hitherto been enacted in the lobby of 
 the theatre: but, as a crowd began to collect, Mr. Max- 
 well offered the use of his carriage, by which, and a 
 hackney coach, which Mr. Crabseye had in waiting, all 
 the parties were speedily removed, "as per agreement," 
 to a neighbouring hotel; Bagsby taking an opportunity, 
 during the transit, of recovering his lost temper, and 
 whispering certain instructions into Mr. Maxwell's ear, 
 in consequence of which, immediately on entering the 
 hotel, that gentleman gave orders for wines and re- 
 freshment to be placed on the table. 
 
 When they entered the room it wanted precisely 
 twenty minutes to twelve o'clock. It was an anxious 
 time for the poor Comte, who had his black morocco 
 leather pocket-book about him, containing many of the 
 notes in question, the discovery of which upon his per- 
 son would, he knew, render^ his case absolutely despe- 
 rate. 
 
 But neither Mr. Maxwell nor old Bagsby had forgot- 
 ten that, provided the said notes were not previously 
 produced, they would, according to the bond, vanish at 
 midnight. 
 
 The former, therefore, politely addressed Mr. Crabs- 
 eye, telling him that he had frequently heard of his 
 extreme vigilance, and that it was much better that, "^ 
 
146 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 as in the present case, an innocent man should be put 
 to inconvenience, than that the guilty should escape. 
 "Really, my good Sir," he continued, '*the Bank of 
 England, nay, I may say the public in general, are 
 greatly indebted to you. For my own part as a part- 
 ner in a house of some eminence in the city, I feel a de- 
 gree of personal obligation, which, upon my word, I 
 hardly know how to express." 
 
 **Very likely not,'* observed the gentleman in black, 
 who was as well aware of the value of time as any of 
 the parties. **Do me the favour, Mr. Crabseye, just to 
 cast your eye on that gentleman; and then, perhaps, 
 you will recollect certain forged notes being traced to 
 him some time since." 
 
 "I know the gentleman and his firm, Maxwell, 
 Ledger and Co.," replied Mr. Crabseye, "We have 
 kept a sharp look out, I promise you: but alPs right 
 there. I don't know a more respectable merchant in 
 the city, than Mr. Ledger." 
 
 "He's an old hum-drum, line-ruling, dot-and go-one, 
 calculating, plodding, sneaking, inanimate, old-fashion- 
 ed, rusty, old square toes!" exclaimed the gentleman 
 in black, forgetting himself for a moment, in his rage 
 against Mr. Ledger, of whom he never lilced to hear. 
 But recollecting himself, he continued, "I beg your 
 pardon for being warm. I never had but one transac- 
 tion with the person of whom you speak, and that was 
 anything but satisfactory. However, he is not here 
 ^ now — that's one comfort! — So I bf g leave to observe 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 147 
 
 that the prisoner ought immediately to be searched; 
 or, even now, the ends of justice may be defeated." 
 
 "There can be no occasion," said Mr. Maxwell, "for 
 treating a gentleman with such indignity." 
 
 "He knows better," observed the gentleman in black, 
 sarcastically. 
 
 "What do you mean by that?" asked Mr. Maxwell. 
 
 "Aye, aye," cried Bagsby, strutting forward, "What 
 do you mean by that insinuation? I beg you to un- 
 derstand that a British merchant " 
 
 "Confound all British merchants!" exclaimed the 
 man of the black cloak, "Really, Mr. Crabseye, if you 
 do not immediately order these men to do their duty, 
 I will not answer for the consequences." 
 
 Here old Bagsby jogged Mr. Maxwell's elbow and 
 whispered, "Pick a quarrel! Kick up a row! Go it! 
 Anything for the sake of time! it wants only ten 
 minutes!" and then the cunning lawyer lifted up his 
 own voice, and addressed the gentleman in black, say- 
 ing, ''I'll tell you what, Mr. what-d'ye-call-em, a British 
 merchant is not to be lightly spoken of by such fellows 
 as you. What are you? Where do you come from? 
 Pray, Mr. Crabseye, my worthy friend, where did you 
 pick up this ragamuffin of an informer?' 
 
 "It can be of little consequence," replied Mr. Crabs- 
 eye, w^ith much dignity, "we are not in the habit of 
 revealing the sources whence we obtain our informa- 
 tion. This gentleman has lately made several dis- 
 coveries of importance to us. Perhaps he may have 
 had a hand in some awkward business; but what o^ 
 
148 THE GENTLEMAN IN BUJlCK. 
 
 that? we must have evidence, and we must make exam- 
 ples of some; and you know the old adage, 'Set a thief to 
 catch a thief,' eh?' 
 
 "Aye, aye," cried the gentleman in black, he knows 
 that proverb well enough, and its application too: for if 
 it were not for that feeling, there would be little enough 
 to do in his office at Lyon's Inn. He! he! he! How- 
 ever, pray, my dear Sir! don't lose any more time but 
 begin to search. It will be of no use presently." 
 
 "That's all my eye and Betty Martin!" ejaculated 
 Mr. Grumps, "I've got my eye-teeth about me, I'll 
 promise ye; and if so be as the gemman goes to throw 
 anything away without my seeing it, I'll eat it, that's all." 
 
 "The thing's morally impossible," observed Mr. Tap- 
 pem. "He an't the first noble gentleman we've had 
 hold on by a pretty many." 
 
 "These men have been tampered with!" exclaimed 
 the gentleman in black, angrily. 
 
 "What does he say?" cried Bagsby, "what! my 
 friends Tappem and Grumps! I'll be bold enough to 
 say that they are as worthy and honourable men, as 
 any about the courts. A pretty sort of a thing it would 
 be indeed, if honest men's characters were to be at 
 the mercy of a fellow like this! But I'll tell you what, 
 gentlemen," he continued, whispering to the officers; 
 "he's got plenty of money, I know; and if I was in your 
 place, I'd make him pay pretty handsomely, or bring 
 an action against him. For (here he elevated his 
 voice, and spoke as loud as possible) character, gentle- 
 flnen, is every thing, — 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 149 
 
 *' 'Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something— nothing; 
 Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: 
 But he that filches from me my good name, 
 Robs me of that which not enriches him, 
 And makes me poor indeed.' " 
 
 "Aye, aye,'* roared Grumps, strutting up to the gen- 
 tleman in black, "who steals my purse, steals trash — 
 but as for my good name, why, it — has — been — slave 
 to thousands — what is it? I don't understand poetry. 
 Howsomever, the short and the long of the business is, 
 I shan't stand no nonsense; and so, if you don't make 
 an apology" — 
 
 **Ah, to be sure," said Tappem, "an apology, or else 
 come down pretty handsome; why, look ye, Mr. Black- 
 and-all-black! mayhap you may lind you have met 
 with your match, that's all. Ah, to be sure, he who 
 filches from me my character, robs me of that which 
 an't of no use to him nor nobody else, and it's a burning 
 shame." 
 
 The moment Tappem was silent, Grumps resumed; 
 and the instant Grumps was silent, Tappem spoke; 
 and sometimes both spoke together; and as they waxed 
 •warm, their language became more obscure and slang- 
 ish; so that after a few minutes, the gentleman in 
 black, who had in vain endeavoured to stop them, 
 found it utterly impossible to tell what they were talk- 
 ing about, although he was himself strongly suspected 
 of having lent a helping hand in the compilation of a 
 "flash" dictionary. 
 
 Bagsby having thus succeeded in making a diversioil^ 
 N 2 
 
150 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 in favour of his client, helped himself to a glass of wine, 
 rubbed his hands, smacked his lips, and indulged him- 
 self in a sort of cackling laugh, as he witnessed the 
 perplexity of the black bond-holder; and then he put 
 his fore-finger to the side of his nose, and winked and 
 nodded at the Comte, and said, "Never fear, Sir! never 
 fear! It's an ugly piece of business, but I have no 
 doubt we shall be able to pull you through. 
 
 The gentleman in black perceiving, by this time, 
 that he had no chance of silencing the two orators of 
 the handcuff, appealed to Mr. Crabseye; but that gen- 
 tleman, assuming an air of hauteur, coldly observed 
 that it was utterly out of his power to interfere; yet, 
 that he could not help remarking, that gentlemen 
 could not be too cautious in their remarks, and that all 
 sorts of insinuations against men's characters, unless 
 they could be substantiated by evidence, were highly 
 improper; and he concluded by averring that, to his 
 own belief and knowledge, Messrs. Tappem and 
 G rumps were most highly respectable and honourable 
 men. Hereupon the two gentlemen last mentioned, 
 evinced their approbation by a simultaneous cry of 
 "Aye, aye!" and a moment after, the clock struck 
 twelve. 
 
 "Hurrah!" shouted Mr. Maxwell. 
 
 "Bravo! bravissimo! very good!" exclaimed Comte 
 Louis. 
 
 "Tol lol de rol," squeaked Bagsby, apeing the gayety 
 
 ^f his companions, by snapping his fingers and holding 
 
 up one of his shrivelled legs as if about to cut a caper. 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 151 
 
 **I told you how it would be!" said the gentleman in 
 black, addressing Crabseye. 
 
 "Told me what?" inquired the inquisitor of bank notes. 
 
 "It is of no use to search him now^^'^ observed the 
 gentleman in black, sullenly. "1 told you how it would 
 be." 
 
 "Told me what?" repeated Crabseye. 
 
 "It's past twelve," was the reply. 
 
 "He, he, he! ha, ha, ha!" chuckled Bagsby. "Ho, 
 ho, ho! why, you don't understand the gentleman, Mr. 
 Crabseye, he told you the clock would strike — ho, ho, 
 ho! oh dear!" Here his cough interfered to prevent 
 any farther remarks, and the gentleman in black, hav- 
 ing tapped his black snuff-box and taken a pinch of 
 blackguard, appeared to have recovered his equanimi- 
 ty, and calmly told Mr. Crabseye that he had nothing 
 more to observe on the business, as the prisoner was 
 secured, and the law would, doubtless, take its course. 
 
 He then shook hands with Messrs. Tappem and 
 Grumps; and the contact of his fingers with their palms 
 had an almost magical effect; for they not only ceased 
 to ask for apologies relative to the injuries inflicted up- 
 on their characters, but declared that they thought all 
 along that he was "a real gentleman." He then grace- 
 fully folded his cloak about him, and politely took his 
 leave of the party. Mr. Micros Crabseye very shortly fol- 
 lowed his example; and Mr. Maxwell, after listening, 
 with evident satisfaction, to something whispered in his 
 ear by old Bagsby, went next. 
 
 The remaining four then sat down to table; and the^ 
 
152 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 Comte, implicitly obeying every direction of his skinny 
 lawyer, called for champagne, which came at his call, 
 and disappeared forthwith in the hands of Tappem and 
 Grumps, whom Bagsby proceeded to address: "Gentle- 
 men! my friend here is a Frenchman, and doesn't under- 
 stand a word of English; therefore, it's no sort of conse- 
 quence what we say before him; so, first I must tell you, 
 for the sake of your consciences, he is no more guilty 
 of forging notes than I am. Perhaps he may have pass- 
 ed one or two innocently — that might happen to any 
 man — but, as for forging, he has no notion of it — in- 
 deed I suspect that fellow that gave the information." 
 
 "What!" said Grumps, "him as just went away, whom 
 we jawed a bit about our characters'?" 
 
 "The same," replied Bagsby; "I have my reasons." 
 
 "Come, come, that won't do!" cried Tappem, "we're 
 not to be bamboozled in that way. He's a gentleman 
 every inch of him, and I wish you were as much of 
 one, that's all! Come, here's to your reformation, (and 
 he filled himself a bumper) you sly old fox! You're up 
 to some gammon or other now, I can see, by the twink- 
 ling of your eyes, and your jaw-pulling trick. Aye, aye, 
 what, you're laughing, are you? Well, well, you may 
 as well tell us what it is at once; for we're all friends, 
 and it's getting late." 
 
 Upon this hint Bagsby spoke to the officers in terms 
 by no means ambiguous; and a very brief interval 
 elapsed ere the party were proceeding along the streets 
 in a hackney coach, towards Mr. Tappem's private re- 
 sidence, wherein it had been previously arranged with 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 153 
 
 Mr. Crabseye, the person of Comte Louis was to be 
 secured for the night. Ere they mounted the vehicle, 
 Mr. Grumps had walked round it, to see that the straps 
 and other matters were in good order; for Bagsby ob- 
 served that several of his friends had met with unplea- 
 sant accidents, from the shocking inattention of hack- 
 ney coachmen. This precaution, however, seemed to 
 be in vain, though we dare not say it did not answer 
 the purpose, for, in passing along a narrow street, some- 
 thing gave way, and the crazy vehicle heeled over on 
 one side. The Comte, Bagsby, and Tappem, found 
 little difficulty in extricating themselves, as from a trap- 
 door; but poor Grumps lay at the bottom, and declared 
 his leg was broken, and his humane comrade was peep- 
 ing pitifully into the dark abyss, and lamenting so griev- 
 ous a disaster, when the Comte, under the directions of 
 Bagsby, discharged the contents of his snuff-box into 
 his face. 
 
 **My eyes! oh, bless my heart! I can't see!" said Tap- 
 pem, clapping his hands before his eyes. 
 
 "This way," whispered Bagsby, taking the Comte's 
 arm, "it's all right," and he led him through one dark 
 alley into another, and turned to the left and the right, 
 and the left about and the right about, for the space of 
 about half an hour; and then they suddenly emerged 
 into a wide street near a bridge, where they found Mr. 
 Maxwell waiting for them in a chaise and four. So the 
 lawyer took a brief leaive of his client, who took a seat 
 in the vehicle, and arrived in his native land in good 
 time for dinner. 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 The morning after the events related in the last 
 chapter, old Bagsby found himself very lonely in his 
 gloomy office in Lyons Inn. The magnitude of the 
 Comte's transactions, in which he had so recently been 
 engaged, made the "six and eightpences" appear ex- 
 ceedingly insignificant; and he conned and looked over 
 thq petty items of his regular clients with a languid 
 eye, then pulled his lip, thrust the papers from him, 
 threw himself back in his chair, looked at the accus- 
 tomed thrifty modicum of small coal in one corner of 
 the grate, and sighed. 
 
 While he was in this frame of mind, the door open- 
 ed, and the gentleman in black made his appearance, 
 and politely expressed a hope that he saw his learned 
 friend in good health and spirits. 
 
 "Middling," replied Bagsby, "I believe I caught a bit 
 of a cold last night. Heugh! heugh! I don't like late 
 hours." 
 
 "I am particularly partial to them," said he of the 
 black cloak, placing a chair near the fire-place, and 
 seating himself therein in a quite-at-home sort of a 
 manner, "I recommend them particularly to all my 
 friends." 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 155 
 
 "Humph!" grunted the lawyer, "very likely. But 
 what's your business here! I am engaged, you see, and 
 have no time for visits of ceremony. The case in which 
 we were engaged is now removed into another court, 
 and I hate morning calls." 
 
 "There again," exclaimed the gentleman of the 
 black-edged papers, "that's very extraordinary! I am 
 particularly partial to them. The sort of conversation 
 which generally passes on such occasions pleases me 
 exceedingly, that is, in a small way. Somewhat in the 
 same manner as the six and eightpences contribute to 
 your comfort, eh? You comprehend? When there is 
 no business on a large scale to be done, eh? 
 
 "Is that all you have to say?" inquired Bagsby, dog- 
 gedly turning to the table, and rummaging among the 
 papers and deeds, as though seeking for some document 
 of importance. 
 
 "Not exactly," replied the other. "You managed 
 that business last night with your usual skill, and I 
 wished to express to you that I do not feel the least 
 animosity on account of the event. I confess myself 
 to have been out-generalled. But, my dear Sir, (here 
 he drew his chair somewhat nearer the lawyer,) now 
 the Comte has returned to his own country, of course 
 you do not any longer consider him as your client." 
 
 "Humph!" said the old limb of the law, "that de- 
 pends upon circumstances. There is no process against 
 him at present — but — hem, hem! my cough is very 
 troublesome." 
 
156 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK, 
 
 <'Well, well, never mind!" continued the gentleman 
 in the black suit, "I like to come to the point at once 
 with those who understand business; and so, without 
 farther preamble, as the Comte's business in this coun- 
 try may now be fairly considered as terminated, you 
 cannot, in any way, be concerned in the ultimate ar- 
 rangement of his affairs." 
 
 "Hem, heugh, ahem!" coughed Bagsby, "that de- 
 pends upon circum — ahem! my cough is exceedingly 
 troublesome." 
 
 "Precisely so," observed the gentleman in black; "I 
 perceive it. Well, my dear Sir, the simple matter is, 
 that, from what I have witnessed of your talents, and 
 considering you now to be perfectly at liberty, I wait 
 upon you this morning for the express purpose of put- 
 ting myself into your hands." 
 
 "What!" exclaimed Bagsby, thrusting back his chair, 
 and starting with his body erect therein, while his arms 
 were stretched forth to their full extent, and his shri- 
 velled hands grasped the elbows thereof, with a violence 
 which seemed to threaten dislocation to the ancient 
 seat of his plodding industry! "What?" cried he again, 
 and his lean limbs appeared stiffened beneath their 
 parchment covering into an unnatural rigidity. 
 
 "Precisely so," calmly resumed the gentleman of the 
 black paraphernalia, "in three words, I wish to ask your 
 advice." 
 
 These words had an almost magical effect on the 
 man of law. He immediately got the better of his ri- 
 gidity and surprise, recovered his self-possession in an 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 157 
 
 instant, and even his troublesome cough appeared to be 
 very considerably amended; for he, forthwith, com- 
 menced a speech of no small length, in which he ac- 
 knowledged that he feltsensibly affected by the confidence 
 which his new cHent was disposed to place in him: that 
 he was aware how frequently he was engaged in suits 
 of various descriptions, and that really the offer was too 
 flattering — too tempting — too — and then, and not till 
 then, he began to hem, and again complain of his cough. 
 
 "Precisely so," observed the gentleman in black. 
 "Well, there must be a beginning: so now, as the 
 Comte, by running away from the country, has left you 
 perfectly at liberty, I wish to know what, in his case, 
 you would advise me to do?" 
 
 "Humph!" said Bagsby, "it is an ugly piece of busi- 
 ness! but, my dear Sir, as we are, comparatively speak- 
 ing, utter strangers; that is, I mean, in comparison with 
 what we may be in future — " 
 
 "Precisely so," observed the dark gentleman; "pro- 
 ceed." 
 
 "Well," continued the man of law, "under such cir- 
 cumstances, I am sure, my dear Sir, you will excuse my 
 freedom, but, ahem, hem, my cough is very trouble- 
 some! under these circumstances, I say, I am sure you 
 will excuse, — but it is a rule that I laid down for myself 
 many years ago, when I first went into business, — I am 
 sure you will excuse, but really, there are so many — 
 hem, hem! my cough is very troublesome." 
 
 "Then come to the point at once," said the gentle- 
 
]58 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 man in black, somewhat testily, "are you willing to as- 
 sist me with your advice?" 
 
 "Not unless I have something in hand to begin with," 
 replied old Bagsby, speaking as plain as though he had 
 never coughed in his life. 
 
 He had so frequently, in the course of his practice, 
 experienced the potency of this proposition, in putting an 
 end to many a promising conference, that even the 
 knowledge of his cHent's wealth could not prevent him 
 from watching his dingy countenance with some anxiety. 
 
 But the dark gentleman was evidently gratified by 
 this display of the ruling passion, and his eyes twinkled 
 as he replied " Precisely so. Nothing can be more rea- 
 sonable! I have no idea of cheap law. It would be a 
 pretty sort of thing if justice were to he given away! 
 quite contrary to my ideas of propriety, I assure you. 
 Shocking! just as if it was a thing of no value. Ho, ho, 
 ho! ha, ha, ha! upon my darkness, you're a capital 
 old fellow; I admire your rule exceedingly, and I hope 
 it will become general throughout the profession. So 
 here goes!" Uttering these words, he began to pull out 
 from the pocket of hisblack inexpressibles, the long black 
 elastic silk purse, of which we have so frequently had oc- 
 casion to make mention, while the lean lawyer sat with 
 greedy eye, as fold after fold came forth from its dark 
 abode, like a cable from its tier on shipboard, and were 
 arranged in voluminous coils upon the ricketty old 
 office table, which literally began to groan beneath 
 their weight. Yet still the interminable process went 
 on, while the black purse bearer, to whom the work 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 159 
 
 was as easy as though he was handhng gossamer, divert- 
 ed himself by watching the changes in old Bagsby's 
 countenance as the heap accumulated. 
 
 At length the dark elderly gentleman suspended his 
 labours, though the end of his magical purse had not 
 yet become visible, as it extended from the table to his 
 pocket like a rope. What its precise length might be, 
 Bagsby could not guess: but, judging from other purses, 
 it might be about half way out, for the owner thrust his 
 finger and thumb into an opening, such as may be seen 
 in the centre of every-day money bags, and drew forth 
 a coin of the value of seven shillings, which he placed 
 before the admiring lawyer, and in a serious, business 
 like tone, and with a face of surpassing gravity, said, "I 
 shall thank you to give me change, that is, fourpence." 
 
 The ancient lawyer had been gazing upon the won- 
 der working heap that was piled upon his table, with a 
 strange intensity; and his feelings were of a most com- 
 plicated nature. He had some indistinct notion that a 
 great part, if not the whole, might fall to his share; but, 
 nevertheless, there stole upon him an inward misgiving 
 that there might be some danger in receiving a fee 
 from such a client; and withal, a chilliness and fear, and 
 trembling, took possession of him; the rigidity of his 
 muscles gave way, and his knees smote one against the 
 other. Therefore the words which were addressed to 
 him, for the purpose of contrasting his usual gains with 
 the prospect before him, fell unheeded upon his ear. 
 
 Not receiving any reply, the gentleman in black 
 
160 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 looked up, and instantly perceived the state of the 
 case. 
 
 *'Smell this, my dear Sir!" he exclaimed, handing one 
 of his black glass bottles. "There — there — you are bet- 
 ter now, I'm sure. What has been the matter with you?'* 
 
 "Yes — hem — yes," replied old Bagsby, snuffing at the 
 specific, "oh, ah — it was nothing. I was subject to such 
 fits when I was a boy: but it is a long time, a very long 
 time, since I have had an attack of the kind." 
 
 "What do you call it?" inquired the gentleman in 
 black. 
 
 "Oh, nothing, nothing," replied the lawyer, endeav- 
 ouring to appear quite at ease, "it was only a recur- 
 rence of early prejudices," 
 
 '•^Only a recurrence of early prejudices!" exclaimed 
 he of the elastic sable purse. Do you call that nothing? 
 allow me to tell you. Sir, that there is scarcely any 
 thing to which I so decidedly object as such reminis- 
 cences. And, permit me to say. Sir, that a gentleman 
 of your experience and good sense ought to be above 
 such follies and weaknesses. What old woman's tale 
 have you got into your head? Really, my dear friend," 
 (here he changed his tone, which had been somewhat 
 harsh, into one of mild entreaty and persuasion) "I did 
 not expect this from yon. You have now been acquaint- 
 ed with me for some years; and I should have imagined 
 that the ridiculous fables of the nursery, which repre- 
 sent me as a remarkably ill-behaved personage, and 
 positively frightful in appearance, had long since been 
 eradicated from your recollection." 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 161 
 
 "One is not able," replied Bagsby, in a sort of semi- 
 apologetical manner, ''to command one's feelings at all 
 times." 
 
 "So it seems," observed the gentleman in black dryly, 
 "but, one would think your own senses sufficient evi- 
 dence to contradict the trumpery fabrications to which 
 I allude. Look at me, and say if you perceive any 
 •thing disagreeable or even ungentlemanlj in my ap- 
 pearance." 
 
 Bagsby looked up, and such was the effect of the 
 slight attack which he had undergone from "early im- 
 pressions," that he spake but the truth when he replied, 
 ^'I must say that I have seen you look better in every 
 respect." 
 
 "If such be your opinion," said the dark elderly gen- 
 tleman, "it is useless for us to attempt to proceed to 
 business this morning," and he immediately began to 
 haul home the coils of his long black silk purse from the 
 table, into his black breeches' pocket. 
 
 Bagsby looked on and sighed, and was just in the act 
 of calling out "stop!" when the door of his office opened, 
 and in walked Messieurs Maxwell and Ledger. The 
 scene now changed as quickly as in a pantomime. The 
 black purse rushed hke a live thing into its place, and 
 its owner arose and took a polite leave of the lawyer, 
 and bowing to the two other gentlemen, ventured to 
 remark that he would not interrupt their business 
 with Mr. Bagsby, as he was just about to take his de- 
 parture. 
 
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162 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "The sooner the better," replied Mr. Ledger sternly, 
 pointing, at the same time, to the door; and straight- 
 way the gentleman in black sneaked off in a very crest- 
 fallen sort of manner, as the vulgar saying is, "with hisi 
 tail between his legs," insomuch that the lawyer was 
 astonished at perceiving the extreme diminution of his 
 importance, and the mean and abject manner in which 
 he made his exit, keeping ever at a most respectful dis-» 
 tance from the stern and upright old merchant. 
 
 Old Bagsby is not the only individual who has been 
 saved from the machinations of the gentleman in black, 
 by the recurrence of "early prejudices," and the com- 
 pany of those whose presence is particularly objection- 
 able to that personage. 
 
 If any consolation were requisite to the man of law 
 for the disappearance of the long black purse, it was 
 immediately forthcoming in the shape of full and liberal 
 payment for all expenses, charges, attendances, consul- 
 tations, stamps, messages, &c. &c., incident upon the 
 case, and in the transactions of the Comte D'Ormalle 
 during his visit to England. When these matters were 
 arranged, Mr. Maxwell stated that, although the Comte 
 had left England, it did not follow that he should be 
 forsaken by his friends; and therefore he proposed that 
 as soon as Mr. Bagsby could make it convenient, he 
 should follow him to Paris. 
 
 To this suggestion the lawyer would not, at first, lis- 
 ten for an instant; but rose from his seat, and paced the 
 room in very evident and great agitation, muttering 
 "me — me — what? I go abroad! Me! why I never was 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 163 
 
 more than ten miles out of town in my life, except once, 
 and then I'd better have been in bed all the while," 
 and forthwith he began a long and tedious tale about 
 a journey to Bath, which was attended with inconve- 
 niences, incivility, overcharges, narrow escapes, imposi- 
 tions, and all the various et cetera, by which "shabby" 
 or inexperienced travellers are beset, and with the 
 narration of which they inflict no small penalty on such 
 as are compelled to listen thereunto. The listeners in 
 the present case, however, had an interest at stake in 
 keeping the story-teller in good humour; and Mr. Led- 
 ger gave a significant nod to his partner, which said, 
 "let the old fellow have rope enough! give him time." 
 So when the elaborate tale was ended, they extolled 
 him exceedingly for the judgment and discrimination 
 of character that he. had evinced in the said journey, 
 and declared that he was perfectly competent to travel 
 into any part of the known world. And so it was that 
 old Bagsby was caught in his own trap, for he had 
 really, while speaking of his unfitness for locomotion, 
 been endeavouring to show off; and, like most of us, 
 he was highly dehghted at receiving a compliment up- 
 on his knowledge of that, respecting which he was in 
 utter ignorance. In common with the generality of 
 men who live apart from the world, he had a very suf- 
 ficiently good opinion of his own talents and acquire- 
 ments. Therefore, when he spake of his ignorance of 
 French customs, manners, and laws, it was a mere feint 
 or ruse to enhance the value of his services; for he 
 verily believed himself to be a match for the gentle- 
 
164 I'H^ GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 man in black, in whatsoever part of the world he 
 might happen to meet him. Such being the case, he 
 was soon persuaded, by liberal promises held out to 
 him by those who had ever acted liberally towards 
 him, to proceed with the business in question, even into 
 the French courts; and immediately the consultation 
 was at an end, he began to make preparations for his 
 departure. 
 
 On the fourth day after these events, a packet sailed 
 from Dover for the opposite port of Calais, with what 
 is termed a side wind; and on the lower or leeward 
 side of the said packet, sat the lean lawyer of Lyons Inn, 
 in a woeful state of agitation, both mental and corporeal. 
 It was the first time that he had beheld the sea; and, 
 consequently, as the little vessel heeled and pitched 
 about upon the face of the billows, he imagined that she 
 was in imminent danger of upsetting, and was literally, 
 undergoing the horrors of a storm. The keenness of the 
 sea breeze, moreover, affected him not a little, and 
 rendered it very desirable that his poor body should be 
 enveloped in certain paraphernalia, which he had pur- 
 chased for an expected nocturnal journey overland, 
 and which, for economy's sake, he had packed up in 
 his portmanteau. But that was deposited in the cabin 
 below, whereunto his legs refused to carry him; and 
 alas! there was no ringing the bell for Jerry. So the 
 poor old fellow sat and shivered, and thought of that mea- 
 gre worthy, and of the quiet and steadiness of Lyons 
 Inn, and, ever and anon, peeped through his watery 
 eyes upon the lessening clifTs of his native land. From 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 165 
 
 this deplorable state of helpless endurance, he was 
 roused into activity by the imperative demands of the 
 God Neptune; therefore, he arose, and, much to his 
 mortification, superadded to the usual tribute, a pair 
 of spectacles and a new hat and wig, which went 
 floating astern amid a burst of laughter from some of 
 the unfeeling crew. But there were other good Sama- 
 ritans on board, who pitied the lawyer's case; and he 
 was soon enveloped in a coarse seaman's blue coat, and 
 a striped woollen cap was placed upon his head, and, 
 thus metamorphosed, he sat in doleful dumps, as though 
 he had been regularly enlisted into the sea service. 
 
 "Ha! ha! ha! laughed a deep hollow voice close at 
 his elbow, *'why, old Jerry himself would hardly know 
 yoii now, my dear Sir. How do you find yourself? 
 Allow me to offer you a pinch of snuff." 
 
 Bagsby turned sharply round, and was not a little 
 startled to find the gentleman in black sitting at his 
 side, apparently quite at ease. "What," continued the 
 dark intruder, "you are surprised, eh? precisely so! I 
 perceive it; but, the fact is, my dear Sir, I am a great 
 traveller — at home — every where. Quite a cosmopo- 
 lite; and, wherever there is any business to be done, 
 there I am. So I thought, as you would be quite at 
 leisure during the passage, and we shall be secure from 
 interlopers, we might as well take this opportunity of 
 talking over the affair in which we are respectively 
 engaged." 
 
 "I beg your pardon, Sir," replied the lawyer, distant- 
 ly, and assuming as much dignity in his new, or rather, 
 
166 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 old dress, as if enveloped in the Chancellor's robes, »'I 
 am not at leisure." 
 
 "Precisely so," said the gentleman in black, in a 
 most imperturbed manner, "that is as you think. But 
 the fact is, I have a proposition to make to you, which, 
 as a man of sense, observation and calculation, I. am 
 confident you will find much more to your advantage 
 than going on this wild-goose chase. I have made a 
 brief memorandum on the subject. Just do me the? 
 favour to look over these papers." 
 
 "I have lost my spectacles," replied old Bagsby, sulkily. 
 
 "My dear Sir," said the man of the black-edged pa- 
 pers, "I will lend you mine with pleasure," and dipping 
 his hand into the black bag, which stood as usual be- 
 tween his legs, he drew forth a black shagreen cafee, 
 from which he took a pair of spectacles, mounted in 
 black tortoise-shell, and politely handed them to the 
 lawyer, who forthwith began reading, and seemed 
 much interested in what he read: and, in the mean- 
 while, the gentleman in black walked up and down the 
 deck, taking snufF with as much sang froid and ease as 
 though he had been on terra firraa. An ejaculation 
 from Bagsby, however, effectually disturbed his equa- 
 .nirnity, and he snatched his spectacles from the old 
 fellow's eyes, and exclaimed, "you know, Sir, I have a 
 particular antipathy to swearing!" 
 
 "My dear Sir," said the lawyer, "allow me to finish. 
 The scheme is wonderful!" 
 
 "Precisely so," replied the owner of the spectacles, 
 resuming his seat. "Loans to young and thoughtless 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 167 
 
 spendthrifts, are by far the best speculations in which 
 you can employ yourself. What with immediate profits, 
 accumulating interest, extended connection, introduc- 
 tions and future contingencies, upon my darkness! I 
 know nothing equal to them. And, as for the needful, 
 I am sure I shall always be ready to advance on your 
 oion security. But read on" — and, thus saying, he re- 
 turned the spectacles. 
 
 It has frequently been a matter of doubt with old 
 Bagsby, whether he really did read anything on that 
 occasion, or whether the spectacles he wore had not 
 a magical effect upon his optics; for he seemed, as in a 
 vision, to behold a succession of individuals, many of 
 them personally known to him, approaching and prof- 
 fering him securities for immense loans. Then came 
 others of the higher class of commoners; and anon, fol- 
 lowed nobles of the first rank, either for the same pur- 
 poses, or to effect exchanges of immense extent and 
 value. And, as he looked on, the old lawyer's self-im- 
 portance gradually increased: and he beheld his profes- 
 sional duties so much extended, that his ofiices, instead 
 of being confined to three dark rooms in Lyons Inn, 
 seemed to occupy the whole of one side of one of the new 
 squares, including separate departments for conveyan- 
 cing, and every other species of legal transactions. On 
 and on went the process, and princes, dukes, and mar- 
 quesses appeared to be waiting his convenience, till at 
 length, in the portly form of one, he recognized Majesty 
 itself; and so utterly was the old fellow lost in the de- 
 lusion, that he exclaimed — "It is the King himself, God 
 
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 bless him!" In an instant the spectacles were snatched 
 from his eyes, and instead of being, as it were, enthron- 
 ed in the midst of his suite of gorgeous rooms, he sat, 
 a poor lean, shrivelled, meagre old man, trembling and 
 helpless as a child, at the mercy of the winds and 
 waves, while the gentleman in black stood scowling 
 over him. 
 
 There are certain poisons, which, when exhibited 
 in too great quantities, have a tendency to counteract 
 their own deadly effects on the human system: and 
 thus it was with the wonderful prospects which the 
 dark designer had presented to his intended victim. 
 He had overdosed him; and he plainly perceived his 
 error, and was about to plan a remedy, when the 
 lawyer's good genius interfered in the shape of a some- 
 what mountainous wave which broke over the little 
 vessel and pitched him forward upon the deck, where 
 he fell upon his knees, and, in that position, under the 
 influence of bodily fear, he uttered his third and most 
 fervent ejaculation. 
 
 Thus, in consequence of his loyalty and seasonable 
 fear, Bagsby was freed, for a time, from temptation to 
 swerve from the path of duty. The gentleman in black 
 was no more seen on board during the voyage; and 
 when they arrived at Calais, there was no small up- 
 roar among the sailors at missing the **dingy fellow 
 that seemed to have his sea legs on board," and who, 
 they vowed, must have fallen over-board, as they would 
 defy even the old one himself to "bilk his passage, ,or 
 escape the Douaniers on landing." 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Previous to Bagsby's arrival in Paris, it will be ne- 
 cessary to look a little into the state of things there. 
 
 After the Comte's departure, matters went on much 
 as usual at his hotel for the space of a week; and then 
 M. le Comte de Tien a la Cour, who prided himself not 
 a little on his skill in such matters, was much scanda- 
 lized at the manner in which that most important meal, 
 dinner, was served; and he could not avoid saying some 
 severe things, to certain of the servants in waiting. He 
 had, however, too much of the (good in that respect) 
 old school about him, to begin scolding regularly in the 
 presence of a few guests, who did him the honour of 
 taking their commons with him "en famille;" and, there- 
 fore, satisfied himself, for the moment, with a glass of 
 champagne, and pulling a face and pushing away from 
 him portions of certain dishes which, truth to tell, well 
 merited the name he gave them of "detestable," inas* 
 much as they were sent in by the "Marchand" of "Pa- 
 tisserie" for the express purpose of (as we say in Eng- 
 land) "getting up a row" for the sake of coming to an 
 explanation. The fact was, that the said "Marchand" 
 had heard an extraordinary tale relative to the G)mte 
 
170 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 D'Ormalle's connexion with the gentleman in black, 
 which tale he had most stoutly taken upon himself to 
 contradict, because he had had the honour to serve the 
 table of M. le Comte (and no nobleman, he was confi- 
 dent, kept a better table) for many years, and had been 
 always regularly paid whenever the Comte visited 
 Paris. But, alas! such is the fleeting nature of even a 
 good name, that, when M. le Comte suddenly left Paris 
 without discharging his bill, he began to doubt. There- 
 fore, when the Abbe Beueton called upon him, (as he 
 felt himself bound to do, seeing that his patron the 
 Comte was but ill-disposed toward the fricandeaux, &c. 
 of the said artist,) the said artist spake of his wife and 
 his large, and increasing, little family; and, after brief 
 explanation, came to the usual issue of "a large bill to 
 make up," "disappointments," "arrangements to make, 
 &c. &c.," all which the abbe said had nothing to do 
 with the matter in question; but which, nevertheless, 
 he should represent in the proper quarter. The poor 
 Comtesse Emilie had never, since her marriage up to 
 that period, known what trouble or anxiety were. She 
 had spent her time in a constant round, or rather, a 
 series of circles of gayety and dissipation. As for money, 
 she had no idea of its value. It seemed to her merely 
 a sort of custom to put one's hand in one's pocket if one 
 ost at cards, or hold it out and receive something if one 
 won. And as for bills, they were to be referred to the 
 steward or the Comte. The case now, however, was 
 very different. She had no money, the steward had no 
 money, and Monsieur le Comte was gone nobody knew 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 171 
 
 where. At first it struck her as a very good joke, an 
 exceedingly ridiculous sort of distress, and so she went 
 and told her most perpendicular father, who averred 
 that, so far from conceiving the thing to be a joke, he 
 considered it to be a very serious, or as Bagsby would 
 have said, "a very ugly piece of business." 
 
 "But, nevertheless, my dear Emilie," he continued, 
 "as it really makes very little difference to me where 
 I live, I shall make it a point not to leave you unpro- 
 tected in your present situation, but wait and see the 
 end of the affair. In the meanwhile, despatch your 
 toilet as quickly as possible, or we shall be late at the 
 Duchesse de Cherceleon's select party." 
 
 To that party and divers others they went; and day 
 after day passed on, yet the Comte D'Ormalle came 
 not, and the poor Comtesse remembered with grief, 
 and something very nearly akin to self-reproach, the 
 manner in which they had last parted. Duns became 
 more frequent, and less poUte and ceremonious; and 
 even her own maid, Lisette (who, by the way, firmly 
 believed that the Comte had been carried off by the 
 gentleman in black) began to exhibit symptoms of 
 peevishness and disrespect.'* 
 
 "Sweet are the uses of adversity!" The Comtesse 
 sat alone, removed from the summer flies of her pros- 
 perity, and thought on bye-gone days of happiness with 
 her dear Louis — how he had anticipated her every 
 wish; and then she recollected the princely style in 
 which, without hesitation or remark, he had so long 
 supported their, or rather her splendid establishment in 
 
172 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 Paris. It had been the envy of all. What was the 
 consequence? Where was poor dear Louis? Had he 
 destroyed himself? No! That was too horrible. She 
 would not beheve that, *'And, yet," she continued, 
 "when I think on my extravagance! But, oh! I dare 
 not look to the future!" and then the poor repentant 
 lady wept. 
 
 Let it not be supposed that her nature was so com- 
 pletely altered as to be ever in this frame of mind. But 
 in such a mood she was, when Comte Louis, after his 
 narrow escape from London, arrived in Paris. She had 
 been thinking of him alone for, at least, ten minutes, 
 and had even murmured his name, and said, "Oh! what 
 would 1 give to see him!" when he rushed into the 
 apartment, and in a moment she was in his arms, vehe- 
 mently sobbing, and expressing as well as she could at 
 intervals, her delight. And the poor Comte! He per- 
 ceived there was no "acting in the case, as he had whi- 
 lome suspected in bye-gone days. All was real; and he 
 pressed her to his heart in fervent joy and gladness. 
 Neither of them had been so happy for years. 
 
 The next morning all the duns were dismissed in a 
 way perfectly satisfactory to their feelings; and then 
 the Comte visited Messieurs Lafitte, Barillons, and the 
 other bankers to whom remittances had been sent in 
 consequence of his transactions in England, and found 
 the amount of his balances so immense, in French 
 livres, that he began to think he should have a hand- 
 some surplus, after discharging the whole of any ac- 
 counts on black-edged paper which the gentleman in 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 173 
 
 black could produce against him. A little considera- 
 tion, however, convinced him of his error on that head, 
 and, for a short time, depressed his spirits. Indeed, 
 there are very few of us who would not be somewhat 
 startled at beholding the sum total of what all our ex- 
 penses and extravagances would amount to in eight 
 and twenty years. So the Comte D'Ormalle sighed, 
 and ordered his carriage and took a ride with his dear 
 Emilie in the Boulevards, in order that his arrival 
 might be generally known; and the consequences of 
 his reappearance were a multitude of calls from the 
 Comtesse's dear friends, and a visit from the old bishop 
 to himself, on particular and private business. 
 
 The ancient and formal ecclesiastic was far too te- 
 dious to be endured in detail by the reader. Let it 
 suffice, therefore, to observe, that he still kept harping 
 upon the alienated Church lands, declared that he had 
 thought much on the Comte's singular case; but really 
 — he scarcely knew, &c. &c., — and finally, that he 
 had thought fit to convene a sort of council, — a few 
 learned friends, men of distinguished parts, who had 
 already held several meetings on the subject, and were 
 to assemble again on the morrow, — when he trusted 
 that the Comte would have the politeness to attend. 
 
 On the morrow, while the Comte was debating on 
 the subject within his own mind, he was most agree- 
 ably surprised by the appearance of his lean legal advi- 
 ser, poor Bagsby, who, in spite of the alarm, fatigue 
 and battering that he had undergone, instantly decided 
 
 on attending <'the Committee," as he called it. 
 p 2 
 
174 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 "There will be no business done in our first inter- 
 view," said he, I understand the nature of such meet- 
 ings, and shall plead fatigue as a reason for not entering 
 deeply into the subject. But I shall have an opportu- 
 nity of making my observations, and of judging what 
 sort of people we have to deal with." 
 
 The council in question were assembled in a circu- 
 lar Chapter-house-looking building, connected with one 
 of the religious establishments in Paris, which it would 
 scarcely be correct to name. The Abbe of Grandes- 
 dimes was president, and the lowest place at the board 
 was occupied by brother Dodun, who was admitted 
 amongst his august superiors, in consequence of hia 
 having been the first person entrusted with the busi- 
 ness in question. 
 
 "So we may expect to see the Comte to-day," said 
 the president, taking his seat. "What time do we 
 dine? Whose turn is it to order dinner? Ah? I re- 
 member now, my dear Franchelippe, we may trust to 
 you always. But really, it seemed to me, that the last 
 time we dined at Very's, we were not precisely treated 
 with that sort of respect which I could have wished. 
 These miserable English at the restaurateurs are quite 
 a nuisance!" 
 
 "Les betes!" exclaimed Abbe Nigaudin, shrugging 
 up his shoulders and elevating his eyebrows in an at- 
 tempt to look wise. 
 
 After a few more observations and questions equally 
 important, a lean, cadaverous looking member of the 
 council, Rateleux by name, put on his spectacles, and 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 175 
 
 opening a huge manuscript volume that lay before him, 
 said, that, if the president would give him leave, he 
 would read a few extracts from certain scarce works 
 of the ancient fathers, which appeared in some mea- 
 sure, to bear upon the case in point. And, then, after 
 hemming three or four times, he began his task in a 
 slow, monotonous tone, and, doubtless, the hearers were 
 much edified thereby, as what he read was written in 
 good old monkish Latin. 
 
 "When this process had gone on for some time, it 
 was interrupted by a gentleman tapping at the door; 
 and brother Dodun, by virtue of his office, as no menials 
 were allowed to be present at this important consulta- 
 tion, went to ascertain the cause. 
 
 "The Comte D'Ormalle is come," said he, gently, on 
 his return to the table. Then followed a whispering 
 conference among the brethren, whether they should 
 awaken the president; but that pillar of the church 
 missed the soothing tones of brother Rateleux, and 
 saved them the trouble of deciding. 
 
 "Admit the Comte by all means," said he most gra- 
 ciously, as soon as he understood the state of the case: 
 and brother Dodun forthwith performed his office, and 
 requested the Comte to walk in. The Comte accor- 
 dingly stepped forward, and, with a slight nod of ac- 
 knowledgment to the humble brother, "en passant," 
 advanced towards the table where the dignitaries were 
 sitting. Dodun then attempted to close the door; but 
 finding some obstacle in the v^^ay, peeped behind to as- 
 certain what it might be, and was in no small degree 
 
176 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 astonished and dismayed at finding his face close to that 
 of our old friend Bags by, who pushed forward without 
 ceremony, and followed the Comte. 
 
 A fearful exclamation from the janitor communicated 
 his alarm to the council board, and there was a gene- 
 ral "sauve qui peut" movement among their reverences, 
 which was with some difficulty arrested by the Comte, 
 who assured them, on his honour, that the gentleman 
 was mly his lawyer. Yet, for some minutes, there was 
 a dead silence at the board, and the members thereof 
 eyed the intruder and his bag with looks of suspicion: 
 and it must be confessed that Bagsby's appearance was 
 far from prepossessing; for, not being able to procure a 
 wig of his own pattern to supply the place of that which 
 had gone to sea, he had cheapened a second-hand "Bru- 
 tus," thinking it would do very well till his return 
 home. Now the said '"Brutus" was black, and large, 
 and full made, and overshadowed, with a profusion in- 
 dicatory of much earlier life, the pale and shrivelled 
 face of the ancient lawyer; so that the "tout ensemble" 
 was most unnatural. Added to this, Bagsby, like most 
 other men who do not often enter into a joke, when he 
 did relish one, enjoyed it ^exceedingly; and the mis- 
 take which had just occurred, tickled the old fellow's 
 fancy so much, that he could not avoid chuckling and 
 cachinnating to himself in a manner that appeared very 
 unseemly in such august presence. 
 
 Brother Dodun, obeying a graceful wave of the pre- 
 sident's hand, placed a chair for the Comte, and Bags- 
 by thereupon, without waiting for any invitation, took 
 
THE gentleman' IN BLACK. 177 
 
 one for himself: and then the abbe of Grandesdimes, in 
 his official capacity, addressed the Comte D'Ormalle in 
 a set speech, wherein he took occasion to say much of 
 the condescension, paternal feelings, learning, (fee. &c., 
 of their venerable and noble diocesan, by whom they 
 had been deputed to examine into this very mysterious 
 affair. ''We have," he continued, '-already made con- 
 siderable progress: but there yet remain certain deep 
 and knotty points to be investigated, on one of which 
 we were deliberating at the moment of your arrival. I 
 assure you, Monsieur Le G)mte, the laity have little 
 idea of the way in which we of the clergy occupy our 
 time — the midnight oil — the " 
 
 Here old Bagsby's cough was extremely troublesome, 
 and the Abbe Nigaudin muttered "Bete!" 
 
 "But," continued the president, "far be it from me to 
 arrogate, either for myself or brethren, any other me- 
 rit than what we may fairly claim for patience and per- 
 severance. For those qualities, my son, you may faith- 
 fully depend upon us; and, in the meanwhile, remem- 
 ber that the power of the church is immense. It is 
 true that I and my brethren here are but individual 
 and humble sons thereof; but, nevertheless, we venture 
 to counsel you not to despair; particularly as you are 
 possessed of the means of doing good." 
 
 Here the president sat down in a state of exhaustion, 
 and then there was a whispering and looking at watches 
 round the table, and then an adjournment until the fol- 
 lowing day. On rising from table, each of the members 
 paid their respects to the Comte, and each in his turn, 
 
178 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 rang the changes upon the old topic, "the immense 
 power of the church, &c." except brother Rateleux, 
 who squeezed the Comte's hand, shook his own head, 
 and said it was an ugly piece of business. 
 
 Bagsby attended the council on the following day, in 
 the character of plenipotentiary for the Comte, and 
 caused a great sensation by affirming that he would not 
 advance a single louis, on account of any expenses that 
 might be incurred, until the business was settled. 
 
 This determination, in which the lawyer was inflexi- 
 ble, caused the despatch of a messenger to Rome, from 
 whence he returned laden with official documents called 
 absolutions, indulgences, &c., which professed to exone- 
 rate the Comte from the consequences of the various 
 sins which he had agreed and been compelled to com- 
 mit: and then the gentleman in black made his appear- 
 ance before the board, to argue the case in person. 
 The uncomfortable feelings that simultaneously took 
 possession of all the ecclesiastics, when he first intro- 
 duced himself, very soon subsided: and he, after making 
 his obeisance in a style of courtly elegance, took a seat 
 at the board, and pulled a variety of black-edged pa- 
 pers, tied with black tape, from his black bag, and 
 placing them on the table, looked round him with an 
 air of calm composure that seemed to say, "Here I 
 am, ready to answer anybody who has anything to say 
 to me." 
 
 In the meanwhile Bagsby had attached himself to a 
 member of the council, who was likewise a Jesuit, and, 
 consequently, well versed in the science of "mystifica- 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 179 
 
 tion." These two worthies sate opposite the gentleman 
 in black, to whom the lawyer nodded in a knowing 
 oblique manner, which spake as plain as nod could 
 speak "I'll bother you yet, old fellow!" 
 
 After the minutes of the last meeting had been read 
 over, the president made a speech, during which, we 
 are sorry to say, old Bagsby's cough was again exceed- 
 ingly troublesome, and the dingy plaintiff himself was 
 compelled to take a pinch of blackguard to prevent 
 him from being guilty of the ungentlemanly vice of 
 yawning. 
 
 At length the packet from Rome was produced in 
 due form, and the various documents were read, by 
 which it appeared that the Comte was relieved from 
 all the consequences of the past, and was freed from 
 all allegiance, suit, service, &c., towards the gentleman 
 in black for the future, any bonds, promises, &c. &c. 
 to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 When the reader was silent, the president arose, and 
 waving his arm with great dignity, exclaimed, "Behold 
 the power of the Church! Great, wonderful, astonish- 
 ing, marvellous, merciful, infallible is the — hem — In 
 short the business is now at an end — Monsieur le Comte 
 is perfectly freed from the toils. — Ahem. As for 
 you. Monsieur, (turning to the sable vested gentleman) 
 you have no longer any demand on, or control over, 
 him; therefore — therefore, allow me to recommend you 
 to retire." 
 
 "By no means," replied the gentleman in black, "I 
 cannot admit, for a moment, that those documents in 
 
180 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 any manner affect the validity of the Comte's bond, 
 voluntarily entered into with me. I consider him to 
 be in the same situation, as regards me, with that of a 
 subject towards his sovereign to whom he has sworn 
 allegiance." 
 
 *'Bah!" exclaimed Franchelippe. "And supposing 
 he were? The Pope, you know, has the power of ex- 
 communicating the sovereign, and absolving the sub- 
 ject from allegiance." 
 
 "As to the matter of excommunication," replied the 
 gentleman of the black bag, "it may be as you say, for 
 aught I know or care; but from the best authorities, I 
 learn that he has not the power of absolving any sub- 
 ject from his allegiance." 
 
 "You are in a state of deplorable ignorance. Monsieur, 
 relative to the power of the Church," said the presi- 
 dent; "I remember to have read a great deal upon that 
 very subject. Perhaps, brother Rateleux, you will 
 have the goodness " 
 
 Rateleux, who, according to the Cambridge term of 
 the present day, had been "cramming" himself upon 
 the subject, commenced a long, learned, and tedious 
 dissertation upon papal supremacy; and spoke of the do- 
 nation of Constantine the great; and quoted divers 
 ancient Chronicles, deeds, speeches, and received opi- 
 nions — related how Clement the Fifth (who, as Pope was, 
 of course, infallible) declared in the council of Vienna, 
 that "all the right of kings depended upon him alone." 
 How Boniface the Eighth, and Innocent the Fourth had 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 181 
 
 made similar assertions relative to various kingdoms, 
 the former particularly claiming the kingdom of France 
 as **a fee of the papal majesty." 
 
 When this erudite display of Brother Rateleux's read- 
 ing and industry terminated, there ran a general buz 
 of approbation and triumph round the board, and then 
 the president declared it to be utterly impossible that 
 any thing could be said which should have the smallest 
 weight against such authority. But the gentleman in 
 black appeared in no degree dismayed; and, after a 
 cool and deliberate pinch of snuff, begged leave to 
 make a few observ^ations. 
 
 "They would be perfectly useless," said the presi- 
 dent, "a mere waste of time, I assure you." 
 
 "We cannot sit here all day," observed Franchelippe, 
 somewhat impatiently, and looking at his watch. 
 
 "Iwill not detain you long," said theblackbond-holder, 
 "for, although I have no trifling knowledge of many 
 works quoted by the learned gentleman, I will not re- 
 fer to them. But the fact is, I am a great traveller, 
 and have lately been much in England and Ireland, 
 particularly the latter; and I find that the best au- 
 thorities, and the most zealous among those of your own 
 church there, declare that the pope has not " 
 
 Here the president's curiosity got the better of his 
 politeness, and he interrupted the speaker by exclaim- 
 ing, "well! and how does the good cause go on? It is a 
 sad thing to think of the heretical state of those king- 
 doms. Abbies, Cathedrals, most excellent benefices I 
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182 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 am told, all, all in the possession of heretics! Ah! Our 
 poor brethren! But, tell me, I beg, are things likely 
 soon to be better? 
 
 **As for that, Monsieur," replied the dark advocate 
 of his own cause, "I dare not speak positively: but I 
 rather think they will. In the mean while, however, 
 what is more to the business in hand, which I always 
 like to stick to, they have agreed that the pope does 
 not possess the power of " 
 
 **^We cannot listen to anything of that kind," said the 
 president. 
 
 "Les betes!'' exclaimed Nigaudin. 
 
 "To think of prescribing limits to the power of his 
 holiness!" cried brother Dodun, turning up his eyes, 
 and concluding with an emphatic "Oh!" 
 
 "Let me tell you," said Rateleux, whose zeal now 
 burst forth in consequence of the approbation which 
 be had just received — "Let me tell you it can be of no 
 consequence what they say. What! Shall it be allow- 
 ed that a few isolated members of the universal church, 
 shall presume to limit the powers of its supreme and 
 infallible head? Bah! What can their opinions, even 
 supposing them to be sincere, weigh against the au- 
 thorities which I shall, with the permission of our learn- 
 ed president, now proceed to quote?" 
 
 Here the hard-reading member produced a paper, 
 on which an abundance of closely written extracts, 
 from ancient authors, were drawn up in dark array: 
 but he was prevented from proceeding in his review 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 183 
 
 thereof, by brother Sapeur the Jesuit, with whom, as 
 we stated before, Eagsby had formed an acquaintance. 
 
 *'I should recommend an adjournment," said this son 
 of Loyola briefly: and the influence of his fraternity was 
 so great, that the president seemed disposed to attend 
 to the suggestion; and even brother Rateleux, at a sig- 
 nificant glance fromihe Jesuit, deposited the important 
 paper calmly amid the heap that lay before him. The 
 other members of the council felt that there was a mys- 
 tery in the business, and as they could not comprehend 
 it, were wise enough to hold their peace, thereby evin- 
 cing a degree of prudence worthy of imitation in higher 
 quarters. So, after a short silence, the council was 
 broken up. 
 
 "You have taken a strange method of assisting me," 
 said Bagsby, when he next found himself alone with the 
 Jesuit. 
 
 "I am sorry to have disappointed you," replied bro- 
 ther Sapeur, "but it was a very delicate matter; as 
 you would say, a very ugly piece of business. The 
 point in question was one which, just nowy it would be 
 exceedingly imprudent to agitate. We must act ac- 
 cording to circumstances. The time may come — ahem 
 — no matter — that is not exactly the business between «5." 
 
 "Have you anything to propose?" asked Bagsby, *'or 
 do you mean to leave me in the lurch, after all your 
 promises?" 
 
 "I have no such intention," said Sapeur, "I propose 
 to have an interview with the gentleman in black upon 
 
184 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 the Comte's case, as I feel myself deeply interested 
 therein.'^ 
 
 "Then the sooner the better!" exclaimed the indivi- 
 dual in question, as he entered the room in which this 
 colloquy was held, in his usual unceremonious way — 
 *'The sooner the better, as 1 have much business in 
 hand," and he seated himself at the table. 
 
 The Jesuit looked for a moment at Bagsby, as though 
 he felt uncomfortable at his presence; but as the law- 
 yer would not take the hint, he proceeded to address 
 the gentleman in black in the Spanish language. His 
 speech was slow, monotonous, and mystical, and seemed 
 to make no small impression upon the hearer, who, 
 after looking round for a moment in evident embarrass- 
 ment, said, "Perhaps — hem — precisely so — I suppose 
 from your dialect you are a Spaniard?" 
 
 "I am generally thought to be so when I speak in 
 that tongue," replied Sapeur. 
 
 "Precisely so," said the gentleman in black: and then 
 muttered to himself in an under tone, "A double-tongued 
 Jesuit, and an old, wily, slippery English lawyer! 
 Fearful odds! What chance have /between themt I 
 don't feel myself at all comfortable!" and he applied to 
 his black snuff-boxes and smeUing-bottle with unusual 
 vigour, while the Jesuit and Bagsby conversed aside for 
 the space of five minutes, to the great satisfaction of 
 the latter, who was, however, too prudent to allow any 
 evidence thereof to appear on his tutored countenance. 
 
THE GENTLEMAN Ilf BLACK. 185 
 
 "1 can draw up the deed immediately," said Bagsby, 
 speaking out, — "nothing can be fairer." 
 
 "If the gentleman does not think fit to agree to the 
 proposition wozu, I will not engage to oflfer it again," 
 observed the Jesuit, in a cavalier tone. 
 
 "I have a great objection to delay," said the gentle- 
 man in black. 
 
 ''Rashness is frequently more prejudicial to one's in- 
 terests," rejoined Sapeur,and old Bagsby began pulling 
 his under lip, as was his wont when concocting any new 
 device. 
 
 "Half the sins remitted! Half the monies paid!" 
 murmured the gentleman in black. 
 
 "Precisely so, to use your own words/' replied the 
 Jesuit, "subject to the appropriation of the sum I named 
 for the prosecution of certain schemes, during the pro- 
 gress of which, whatever the end may be, you must be 
 well aware, many of your own interests will be served." 
 
 "I acknowledge the truth of your remark," said the 
 dark gentleman. "I confess that the stirring up of 
 men's passions is gratifying to me." 
 
 "I am confident that a person of your good sense must 
 come to a right conclusion," observed the Jesuit. 
 
 "But to postpone my claim to that which is, as it 
 were, within my grasp!'' added the other. 
 
 "As it were, indeed!" said Sapeur, "You will soon 
 find that I and my worthy friend opposite have not ex- 
 hausted our resources." 
 
 The gentleman in black sighed and cast a glimpse at 
 q2 
 
186 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 Bagsby, and muttered, "Fourteen years!" and then 
 some sudden and not unpleasant idea appeared to cross 
 his mind: and he sat musing and tapping the lid of his 
 black blackguard snufF-box for the space of a minute, 
 when he exclaimed, "Well — then, be it so! The first 
 loss is the best when one gets into such hands." 
 
 "I beg leave to observe that that is a very ungentle- 
 manly observation," said Bagsby. 
 
 "Never mind," quoth the Jesuit, "We must make 
 allowances. Draw up the deed." 
 
 "Aye, aye," muttered Bagsby, shuffling up to the ta- 
 ble, on which were writing materials in abundance. 
 "Let me see. Half the monies to be returned. — They 
 are entirely under my control, and I shall give a cheque. 
 Half the sins remitted — half the time — that is fourteen 
 years — and at the end of fourteen years more, the ques- 
 tion to be resumed as left on this day.". 
 "Precisely so," said the gentleman in black. 
 "We may as well take a walk in the gardens while 
 our friend is engaged," observed the Jesuit, "and breathe 
 a mouthful of fresh air." 
 
 "With all my heart," replied the dark gentleman, 
 "It will perhaps do me good, for, to say the truth, I 
 don't feel quite myself this morning." 
 
 On their return it was evident that the spirits of 
 both were much improved, whether from the effects of 
 the air, or any thing they had seen in the gardens of 
 the Tuilleries, or that they had been complimenting 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 187 
 
 and mystifying one another, must remain a matter of 
 uncertainty. 
 
 The lawyer, in the interim, had not been idle, for 
 the deed was ready for signature, and he presented it 
 to the gentleman in black, and requested him to look 
 over it. 
 
 "Bah!" exclaimed the man of sables, "what a rig- 
 marole! Four long pages! I never could comprehend 
 these endless, senseless phrases — provided — neverthe- 
 less — hem — ha! I see the heads are ri^ht. "Fourteen 
 years" — ah — "Half the amount of" — "renewed in four- 
 teen years" — hem — well — here goes then, for once, to 
 remit my just and lawful claims. Give me a pen." 
 
 The document was regularly signed, and witnessed 
 by Sapeur the Jesuit, and Bagsby, and the cheque 
 handed over to the gentleman in black, who put it 
 carefully up in his black morocco leather pocket-book, 
 and then throwing himself back in a chair, gave vent 
 to one of his startling fits of immoderate laughter. 
 
 Hereupon the Jesuit looked somewhat blank, and 
 uttered an expressive "Humph!" while Bagsby's an- 
 cient and meagre countenance underwent not the 
 shadow of a change. 
 
 "Do you know," asked the gentleman of the dark 
 suit, addressing the latter, as soon as he had recovered 
 from his hilarious paroxysm, "what was my principal 
 reason for signing the paper which you have in your 
 pocket?" 
 
 "Not I," replied the lawyer, "I neither know nor 
 
188 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 care. All I know is that my purpose is answered, and 
 that is sufficient for me." 
 
 "Then I'll tell you," said the gentleman in black, *'I 
 have been calculating that before the expiration of 
 fourteen years, you will have ceased to be in a condi- 
 tion to o]>pose me." 
 
 "Humph!" grunted Bagsby, ^'Literae scriptae manent 
 — ^you may, perhaps, have no great cause for congratu- 
 lating yourself when the time comes." 
 
 "What do you mean?" inquired the dark gentleman, 
 briskly. 
 
 "Nothing more," replied the lawyer calmly, "than 
 that I have taken proper care of my client's interest. 
 
 All demands on either side, either for money or sin, 
 cease for fourteen years, and, at the end of that period, 
 as I have reserved to the Comte an option of cancel- 
 ling whichever half of the eight-and-twenty years he 
 pleases, I suppose he will find no great difficulty in sin- 
 ning for a second on the first year of your renewed 
 claim, and two seconds during the second, and so on; 
 and moreover, in case he should have become particu- 
 larly religious in his latter days, he will have the ad- 
 vantage of the clause introduced by yourself into the 
 original bond, by which **all sins committed before, and 
 all sins which he may commit in future, over and above 
 the stipulated agreement, are to be taken into account." 
 So, altogether, if he makes proper use of the money 
 yet remaining in his hands, what with interest and 
 compound interest, I think you might almost as well be 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 189 
 
 in Chancery. He, he! Why don't you laugh?" and 
 the old fellow cackled most triumphantly, till a fit 
 of coughing put an end to his merriment. 
 
 The gentleman in black, in the meanwhile sat sadly 
 crest-fallen and disconcerted, while the Jesuit appear- 
 ed to be absorbed in some deep and abstruse calcula- 
 tions, his dark brow and pale cheek supported on his 
 left hand, as he murmured at intervals, "Fourteen 
 years — and fourteen — twenty-eight — the mission — the 
 Bourbons — Ferd — inquisit — emancipation — a glimpse of 
 former — hem — magna est Veritas et — hem — twice four- 
 teen — a general — why not?" 
 
 "Fool that I was!" exclaimed the gentleman in black, 
 rising and stamping violently on the floor, "to think of 
 signing any paper without bringing my own lawyer." 
 
 "It was very imprudent, certainly," replied Bagsby, 
 "but what is done cannot be undone, and you should not 
 bear malice. I must now go and report progress to my 
 client," and thus saying, he arose and took his hat. 
 
 "I shall not lose sight of you," exclaimed he of the 
 black habiliments, somewhat angrily; but in a moment 
 curbing his passion, he made an effort at apparent mag- 
 nanimity, and assuming his usual courteousness, conti- 
 nued, "I will do myself the pleasure of calling upon you 
 at Lyons Inn ere long. I admire your talents, and shall 
 cultivate a more intimate acquaintance; for you have 
 convinced me that, notwithstanding a considerable 
 portion of self-conceit to which I plead guilty, I have 
 yet much to learn. People say that I have a very 
 
190 THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 
 
 extensive circle of friends among gentlemen of your 
 profession, but I assure you that the report is not to be 
 relied on. Indeed, considering the facilities of introduc- 
 tion which I possess, and the inducements I frequently 
 have in my power to hold out, I am often surprised that 
 1 have not more on my list." 
 
 *'I wish you a good morning," said Bagsby, taking his 
 leave. 
 
 *'Au revoir," replied the gentleman in black, bowing 
 politely. — And so they parted. 
 
 A grand entertainment was given at the Comte 
 D'Ormalle's hotel, whereat Bagsby "sported" a new 
 wig, and was introduced as the Comte's most particular 
 friend to many noble personages, and "gens comme il 
 faut;" but a whisper of the story of "a gentleman in 
 black" had gone abroad, and he found himself alone in 
 a crowd, though the "admired of all admirers." The 
 ladies, in particular, reversing the usual custom of 
 "place* aux dames," made way for him wherever he 
 moved. Eis was a painful pre-eminence, and there- 
 fore he lost no time in returning to the quietude of 
 Lyons Inn, where he and old Jerry were alive some 
 years ago, and going on in the old six-and-eightpenny 
 style. 
 
 Considering his nation and his habits, it will not ap- 
 pear surprising that the Comte D'Ormalle did not con- 
 cern himself about what might happen in about eight 
 and twenty years. The ecclesiastical council on his 
 case was broken up; and the only individual of that 
 
THE GENTLEMAN IN BLACK. 191 
 
 body who appears to have taken any further interest 
 in the matter is brother Rateleux, who. was long em- 
 ployed in a deep investigation and learned dissertation 
 upon the probability and possibility of the gentleman in 
 black urging his claims, should the Comte have arrived 
 in purgatory before the expiration of the period during 
 which he had agreed to allow them to remain dormant. 
 We are happy to say that the decision to which he 
 came was, that, in such a case, which according to the 
 usual tenor of human existence, may probably occur, 
 the gentleman in black will be nonsuited. But if the 
 learned brother has made a false conclusion, or the 
 Comte should survive the stipulated period, his ultimate 
 fate must depend entirely upon the question of the 
 pope's supremacy, which may, perhaps, then be ar- 
 gued at full length. But, it is an inquiry of too deep 
 importance, and involved too much in the labyrinths 
 of historical investigation, for us to venture an opinion 
 thereupon. 
 
 In the meanwhile they are going on in Paris as if 
 they cared nothing about the matter. 
 
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