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"And who is Jasper Gaunt?"

"Oh, delicious innocence! Ah, Bev! it's evident you are new to London

Gaunt is an outcoy as its bricks,

as flinty and hard as its pavements Gad! most of our set know

Jasper Gaunt--to their cost! Who is Jasper Gaunt, you ask; well, etting deeper

every day, poor old Sling! Ask it, but in a whisper, at Almack's, or

White's, or Brooke's, and my Lord this, that, or t'other shall tell

you pat and to the point in no measured terard toilers in the streets, of

pale-faced women and lonely s, and they'll tell you, one and all,

that Jasper Gaunt is the harshest, rew rich on the poverty and suffering of his

fellowwhich, his Lordship abruptly turned down an unexpected and

very narrow side lane, where, screened behind three great trees, was

a sh before the door

and a sign whereon was the legend, "The Spotted Coith a

representation of that quadruped below, surely the very spottiest

of spotted cows that ever adorned an inn sign

"Not much to look at, my dear Bev," said the Viscount, with a wave

of his hand towards the inn, "but it's kept by an old sailor, a

shipood breakfast,