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"Carus," said Sir Peter, fork poised, glass in hand, "it's a thousand on the main, a hundred on each battle, and I must win You know that!"

I knew it only too well and said so, speaking cheerfully yet seriously of his affairs, which had become so complicated since the closer blockade of the city But he was ever gaily impatient of details and of pounds and pence Accounts he utterly refused to audit, leaving it to aps left by depreciated securities, and find a fortune to maintain him and his wife in the style which, God knows, befitted hier properly afford And when it ca from race-track to cockpit, and from coffee-house to card-rooh and swear and voas treating him most shabbily And it was no use; he would have his pin-e or borrow, at an interest most villainous, from the thrifty folk in Duke Street

So nohen I offered to discuss the danger of extravagance, he swore he would not have a day's pleasure ruined by a serarden tothe servants, so that all could share the pleasure and lay wagers a their kind for the honor of the Flatbush birds and theout froallop out into Broadway and up the street, keeping under the shade of the trees to save our horses, though the air was cool and we had not far to go

Presently he drew bridle, and alked our horses past Partition Street, past Barckley, and the colanced askance at the os, the Bridewell, the Al always ready between; and it brought sullen thoughts to me which four years of patience could not crush; nor had all these years of inaction dulled the fierce spark that flashed to fire within me when I looked up at the barred s and at the sentinels, and thought of ham, the Provost, whoht a my eye

"Yes, the cruelty practised yonder!" I blurted out Never before had I said as much to any man