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THE SOUTH-SEA HOUSE

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        READER, in t been receiving t a lean annuitant like myself) to t, to secure a place for Dalston, or Sreat nort tone edifice, to t --    abuts upon Bise? I dare say t often admired its magnifit portals ever gaping o vie, ers and pillars, races of goers-in or ers-out -- a desolation sometrade, -- a tre of busy is. ts    up, till to be seen stately porticos; imposing staircases; offices roomy as tate apartments in palaces deserted, ling clerks; till more sacred interiors of court and ittee rooms, ors seated in form on solemn days (to proclaim a dead dividend,) at loables, t arnis-leating massy silver inkstands long since dry -- ts ures of deceased governors and sub-governors, of queen Anne, and t monarcy; -- s, ed; -- dusty maps of Mexico, dim as dreams,-- and soundings of ts, appended, in idle roo , flagration: --    ranges of cellarage under all, ;unsunned ; for Mammon to ary    ed, or scattered into air at t of t famous BUBBLE.

        [Footnote] * I passed by te. -- Ossian.

        Suc least, suc y years ago,    relic!    alterations may    since, I unities of verifying. time, I take franted,    fres. ers. A t by time stagnates upon it. t tening upon its obsolete ledgers and day-books, ed from tions, but ot geions ries. Layers of dust ed (a superfoetation of dirt!) upon t seldom used to be disturbed, save by some curious finger, o explore ty, seeking to unveil some of teries of t tremendous ent tty peculators of our day look back upon ion, and ion of rivalry, as emplating titan size of Vauxs super.

        Peace to titution are upon thy walls, proud house, for a memorial!

        Situated as t, in t of stirring and living erce, -- amid t and fever of speculation --    t prosperity, ant faces, as it ing t of business -- to templative,to suc -- a cessation -- a ess from business -- an indolence almost cloistral --    reverence    bare rooms and courts at eve -- tant,    by me, stiff as in life. Living ats and atants puzzle me. I    t dead tomes,    day could lift from tastic flourisive rubriterlag triple niations, set doy of ces at t ured to open a book of business, or bill of lading -- tly vellum covers of some of t persuading us t    into some better library, are very agreeable and edifying spectacles. I    look upon t dragons ors s for) are as good as any trograde.

        ty years back- from t I o do ook of the place!

        tly (for tablis did not admit of superfluous salaries) bac muco do) persons of a curious and speculative turn of mind. Old-fasioned before. s, for tions; and, not    togetendency to assimilate te bodies to eac, for t part, placed in to it te s and oddities, unqualified, if I may so speak, as into a on stock.    of Noaery. Domestic retainers in a great    more for s pleasant fello a fe siderable profi te.

        t t time on. rymen stamped on     bottom. o t, po, in to ures of ermed, in my young days, Macies.    of t race of beaux. Melanc over er all t) remulous fingers, as if    er; in o imagine ed, at least, y of ristful visage clearing up a little over    neck of veal at Aons at till aken a little before er of ted for t five-and-ty years), but not attaining ts animation till evening brougea and visiting. taneous sound of    troke of topic of never-failing mirte, e into secret ory ! ryman, Pennant icular, could not be more eloquent tion to old and nee of old tres, creets goo decay --    in ecdote, derived from paternal tradition, of tesque figures s of to try, from teent alive tering obscurities of y of the Seven Dials!

        Deputy, under Evans, ame. oop of a nobleman. You minster-oop, I mean t gentle bending of t men, must be supposed to be t of an ual desding attention to tions of t straio t in t leisure to smile at tive insignifice of tensions     order. It did not reaco a saate of    tame lefolks,    all times    meagre person,    s sinned in over-pampering; but in its veins ionsood, -- muty at time of day, -- to trious, but unfortunate er. t of toop. t -- timent -- t solitary star of your lives, -- ye mild and    of intellect, and in ty of your station! to you instead of ricead of rank, instead of glittering attais: and it ogeted none ; but,    like solamen.

        Of quite anotamp ant, Joipp. eo rut tter. ;t an ata cer i atant in it." Yet Jo     ainly, es to t abominably. e of official rooms i, antial appeo to enlarge a mans notions of    lived in t es of a cert of "s breasts," as our aors s on, and drank e like Lord Midas among t at tipp e anot of creature. t al, ic    rebuke. Politics    too refined and abstracted. ty of man sisted in ing off dividend s. triking of t year in ts for a mont t tipp o ty) in    sigurn of tifling days    intricate ats of t flouris to a genuine atant tional farto    as tand before it. rue actor, , must act it ensity. itipp form ions seemed ruled    less erring t.    executor in t executorsed y in equal ratios. ipp s ttle orps enacity like t eerests to e. it    of timidity -- (o give it a o ttle on ture certainly o endo measure of tion. t despise, because it reacs elements; it betrays itself, not you: it is mere temperament; tid terprising; it sees a lion in t, inbras, "greatly find quarrel in a stra; ake. tipp never mouage-coac t; or looked do off a gun; or    upon a er-party; or    you go if :    recorded of    for lucre, or for intimidation, he ever forsook friend or principle.

        sy dead, in    t, tters, teredst ttedst it in mid-day -- ( t some quirk t left a sting! tinct, or survive but in tten volumes, o rescue from a stall in Barbi, not terse, fresic, as alive. t is a little gone by in tidious days -- topics are staled by t;ne; of time -- but great to be in Public Ledgers, and in , and tearing from Great Britain t, and Ricics. -

        A little less facetious, and a great deal more Obstreperous, tling, rattle in a rigensions, like tle of ter bend) from tfordsradition gave ; aain family features not a little saned tainly old alter Plumer (ed auted mucaly, and o till living, y in so many successive parliaments, and er flouris a business of franks,    in Jo business. It is certain our Plumer did noto diste leness, insinuated. But, besides ensions, Plumer was an engaging fellow, and sang gloriously. -

        Not so sly sang Plumer as t, mild, coral M -- ; a flutes breatones    c t song sung by Amiens to ter    to be ungrateful. te.    le offspring of blustering er : -- only unfortunate in tory, swan-like. -

        Muco sing. Many fantastic s t be mine in private -- already I o top of    ; -- else could I omit t strange creature oollett, rying tion, and bougigations ? -- and still stranger, inimitable, solemn y Neion.    deliberation would    a wafer ! --

        P> But it is time to close -- nigtling fast over me -- it is proper to his solemn mockery.

        Reader, astisubstantial like henry Pimpernel, and old John Naps of Greece : --

        Be satisfied t someto tance is from t.
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