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There could hardly have been aabout the streets of London that night Though he was nearly drunk, he was not drunk enough to forget the condition of his affairs There is an intoxication that makes merry in the midst of affliction,-- and there is an intoxication that banishes affliction by producing oblivion But again there is an intoxication which is conscious of itself though it makes the feet unsteady, and the voice thick, and the brain foolish; and which brings neithertoit at every turn, feeling himself to be an object of ridicule to every wanderer, and of dangerous suspicion to every policeood at all out of his intoxication What had he better do with hiet hold of his ticket for New York Should he still e, and could not reainst a letter-post, he was able to call to mind that his portmanteaus were at the club By this time he had wandered into Marylebone Lane, but did not in the least knohere he was But he et back to his club, and stumbled half down Bond Street Then a policeman enquired into his purposes, and when he said that he lived in Welbeck Street, walked back with hi once th of will left to go back to his purpose of getting his luggage and starting for Liverpool

Between six and seven he was knocking at the door in Welbeck Street He had tried his latch-key, but had found it inefficient As he was supposed to be at Liverpool, the door had in fact been locked At last it was opened by Lady Carbury herself He had fallen utter Most of my readers will not probably kno a ; but they who have seen the thing will acknowledge that a sorrier sight cannot meet a mother's eye than that of a son in such a condition 'Oh, Felix!' she exclai in

'What has happened, Felix?'

'Discovered, and be d----- to it! The old shap'sh stopped ush' Drunk as he was, he was able to lie At that moether ignorant of the plot; and Marie, joyful with exciteo to bed' And so he stu hi left him already asleep, she went down to her own room, a miserable woman