The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 236: what you’re looking at

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opportunity to be persuaded. Mcreover, remem- 934 MYSTERIES | resident in London, since such was the good } pleasure of hisimperial majesty. Your excellency’s task will bean easy one, said Rio Santo, as they were about to separate. The tyranny which we wish to destroy, menaces soon to. weigh upen the whole world, and the whole world is consequently interested in shaking it off. The weight of the imperial wish expressed by you, its official organ, will be alone sufficient to cast the balance on our side; for every one of the diplomatists you are about te see, and every ene of their masters too, have been separately solicited onthe gubject, and will be glad of an \ ber well that other measures—measures still more terrible, are in preparation to strike the colossus on every side, at the same time. You will here- after comprehend, | hope, why it is that I give my whole life—my apparent life—io those frivol- ous pastimes, of which you have so often spoken as acrime. You will now understand, why I have made myself the king of fashion; why I am sur- rounded by this almost oriental luxury—for that is your favourite term, prince, I understand; why T make every echo of the West-end resound with my amorous intrigues ;—and finally, that Lon-— don may think me the opposite of whatlam, or, better to express myself, London should only see me under cone of my aspects, and thus believing | me to be merely the most elegant and the mos§ __ gallant man of the day, the man who possesses’ | the most magnificent horses in the three kingdoms, they will not think me anything else. One is | better hid by playing this part, prince, than by |