A Bayard From Bengal

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by H. B. J.

lla to the Charybdis of the London Season, and one day Lord Jolly arrived at our hero's apartments as the bearer of an invite from

of pampered menials and gilded flunkies divested Mr Bhosh of

I am engaged as a Benedict, and am shortly to celebrate matrim

o hang around your patrician neck the flo

en my betrothed beholds your countenance, she will conceive for you a similar lively affection. But hush! here she comes

until he had resumed his perpendicular that he recognised in the Princess Jones the char

the most ardent affection for him. But Mr Bhosh repressed himself with heroic magnanimity, for he reflected

lighted to make your acquaintance," and turning on his heels with

lishly it pinches, and Mr Bhosh's grief was so acute that he rolled incessantly on his cou

g an air of meretricious waggishness to conceal the worm that was busily cankering his internals, and so successful was he that L

thereby inflicting the cup of calamity on his best friend. Willingly would he have imparted the whole truth to his Lordship and counselled him to postpone the Princess's visit until he, himself, sh

the excellences of Lord Jack. "What a good, ripping, gentlemanly fellow he was, and how certain to make a best quality husband!" Princ

ip away and weep salt and bitter tears as he weltered dolefully on a doormat; nor was it

Bhosh sought to drown his sor

a few worms, and angle for salmons; or else he would stalk partridges, and once he even assisted in a foxhunt, when he easily outstripped all the dogs and singly confronted Master Reynard, who had turned to bay savagely at his nose. But Bindabun undaunte

BY HIS DETERMINED A

it was a constant wonderment that Mr Bhosh did never, even in the most roundabout style, allude to

tive temperament is too sheepishly m

n any domestic interior, there is always a person sooner or later who will contrive to blow them off;

lady, with whom she was hail-fellow-well-met, and this perfidious female set herself to ensnare

im as a favourite son, and marvelled that any youthful feminine could prefer an ordinary peer like Lord Jolly to

e violence of her attachment, and how she had striven to acquaint Mr Bhosh

love-letter into his ha

he never approaches near enough to me to receive such a

use it coming from myself; moreover, I have influen

sured Mr Bhosh that she had divined his secret passion and fully reciprocated it, a

next but deliver it impromptu into the hands of Lord Jack, who, after perusing it, was

f fish-but I must reserve th