The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 5 — page 228: what you’re looking at

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me. , He used to'get me to write out. his speeches to: RR ae ae = F Aa. 2: - 8p ae eee © - THE MYSTERIES OF THE GOuRE, 915 ors: eS pee eee es SOP Fi? Mieke eee ed we = wonnefl | mommpiin 2 He was 5 very liberal, and indulged me to the utmost of his mgans: eo that I speedily rozained the jowellery I: had lost. through tho Momber for | Blarneyville... Jt appears that my friend tho Judge was very fond of making pathetic speeches from the beach when. smntencing prisoners. Qn one occasion, some.time before .E knew him, a case camo before hin at the Old: Bailey, in which & servant-girl was accused of conniving with a. young man tu rob her master's house... It travepired during the trial that the servant-girl. had: beoome infatuated with the young man=—wes seduced. by him—and secretly ad- funds. He was always expecting immense yeinit- tances from his Irith estates—but. they never came. | He was howaver such an agreeable fellow—so, gay, sq good-humoured, so full of fun, so. sprigAtly' and: clésep, that I was. quite smitten with him... It was asort Of infatuation—so thas J believed -al)-he told | his dictation; and then be. would, learn: them-by heart, and go down to the: Hoyss of Commons and surprise them all with what‘eemed to be a genuine outburst of extemporanegue eloguence.of the higls est order. But‘on one occassion be miade a, very: fatal | mishap. Two. distinct. questions: were coming on | raitted him into the bouse at. night to remain with for discussion on. the same: night, and-on- both | hee.” On ono of those occasions ho robbed the pre- of which he intended to ‘speak. . For I afterwards | mises, while. the poor unsespecting girl. was fust found that he had been put in for Blarney: | aaleep. Her i innovence, @0: far as any complicity in ville by tho Marquis of Donkeyderry, the. me the depredationa was: coricerned, was. most sutis- of the borough; and so he "was to. factorily proven’; while her lover was shown to be speak, and. vote, and act, precisely. in. “obedience the guilty party. The Judge, in sentencing him and to his lordship’s . directions. “Well thdn, hg had | discharging hor, made a long and most pathotia these two distinct subjects sto speak: upon for the | speech, showing “the evils which arose trom. giving sar evening. One wae the Irish. Fisheries; and | way to sensual passions ;“and ho expatiated in such the other was the cage of the. Rajaheof umand- terms upon “the dr effects‘ of loose principles brandypoore.. So you may eee that they were in- | on the part of men and frailty on thet of women, deed very discrepant... Well, my friend ' Patrick ES he drew tears from nove? one inthe court. In O’Blanaghan dictated two. brilliant speechas,: which | short, it was a perfect easay,.and seemed to I wrote down for him very carefully; and he learnt | prove that the learned Judge who could deliver such them by heart. He then primed himself with a | sublime sentiments must himself be the most im- couple of bottles of champagne, and went down to | msculate of men.” —. the House. But thero, i¢ appears, he took. some| .“ But how does this anecdote apply to any thing ten or a dozen glasses of whiskey-toddy as Dol- [in conriexion with yourself, my dear Emily,” asked lamy’s: so that when the debates came. on he did | Lord Harold; since “it ‘happened ¢ ong before you not precisely know whether he. stood on is head.or | knew your Judgef”. his heels, Tho first.questioh.was the Irish Fisheries {. “ You shall hear. Thad Been under his lordship's —when up jumped O'Flanaghan and began. vomit- | protection for about three months, when I bappened ing furth a perfect torrent of eloquence. -But: ua- | to discharge my housomaid and took another, the fortunately it waa the brilliant spoocky which related | new-comer having an excollent character from her to the Rajah of Rumandbrandypoore. The, House ast place.:. But.only conceive the scene which .en- was astonished ~—the. Spewker. sate. aghast.. On- be || sued, when my Judge,.on arriving.one evening to went, rushing like a madinan through tho wildost | sup with me, was instantancously recognized by tho declamations against the East #édia Company, and | new housemaid,; who was the very same servant- drawing such a@ picture of the:wWronzs of the unfor- | girl ho liad so pathetically idtured at the Old Bailey. tunate Rajah of Ruymandbrand yposra that-he.grew:. The consoquence was the evaporation of the learned pertectly furious with the excitement of indignation Judge from my lodgings; and the next day he into which he lashed bimself. There he was, far | ‘enclosed me «-hundred-pound-note as’ a token of away amidet the jungles of India—whon he ought ‘adieu; I then passed under the protection of Mr. to have been with the shoals of herrings on the . Walter of the Opera, and thence under that of Lord Irish coast! = Of course: this scene could: not con- Saxondale. Such, my. dear. Harold, is.a true and ~ tinuo long: .the House, revoveritig from ita conster: faith, narrative of my proceedings during the two nution, oxploded .in shouts of laughter —and poor : past years,” O'Flanaghan was at.lesgth mide sensible of his| “ And now tell ma, my deat Einily,” ssid Staunton, error. He fled. fron: the House. with precipitation; | —~' ‘because’ I - am. really interested ih you,—bhave and next day accepted the Chiltern. Hundreda.. : The’ you rnahiiged: to eave any money: during all this Marquis of Dankoyderry then put his butler or. his .time?” - >: *- head groom—i. forges which, but at's all, the sam) “Thad pred r i, previous to my sequainturice into the vacant borough .of "'seneyville; end - poor. | with O'Fts n: but. he got it all out of me. O'Flanaghen - never Noerd of oy mong, -Lheve., Since thea. E: ould: eave. thing until within the been told thet there is. sow @: billiardsmarker: at : [dab week. or: two j.and now Iam making a boginning Bath or Cheltenham very much. resembling him he inca Bas -you don’t know. how moncy slips away but I cannot answer for thetrnth: of ite fg sf | with: wonwe in. my. position, .When I look back ¢hd atyle in which she. told it, : weiss: ee Momiggt “ Having thus: loet: my “Hei: oy ae, ahi gon’: Seek ded oo recklessly: but it is all im vain to. make tinued, abandoning .her hand to. tha: ‘h bat | dni: Boe f -resaleidioris, for the future. The fat is, women panion, “I aécepsed. the protection. oa Fudge and plioed'sé Tan éan't save permanently. . As I fnat he placed me: in very handsome apartmonts.at-tho ow sajd, Cam ; faving at present; but I dare aay Weat Bas. He was compolled to Be exceedingly that something will ariee at no distant time tosweer cautious in visiting me, as be was so well known. away all thoso savings.” ‘of wha: ‘L.might: have saved, I wonder where | anecdote, and. complimented. in my she Ae Das oily gona and why: it has not Woch saved. : Col) ompatimiae F:abink what.a fool I am to spend se | COMIC OOO© SS (CO)