Apparelled as becomes the brave,
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Much I misdoubt this wayward boy
Will one day work me more annoy.
Bride of Abydos.
The learned and ingenious John Schweighaeuser (a name facile to spell and mellifluous3 to pronounce) hath been pleased, in that Appendix continens particulam doctrinae de mente humana, which closeth the volume of his “Opuscula Academica,” to observe (we translate from memory) that, “in the infinite variety of things which in the theatre of the world occur to a man’s survey, or in some manner or another affect his body or his mind, by far the greater part are so contrived4 as to bring to him rather some sense of pleasure than of pain or discomfort5.” Assuming that this holds generally good in well-constituted frames, we point out a notable example in the case of the incarcerated6 Paul; for although that youth was in no agreeable situation at the time present, and although nothing very encouraging smiled upon him from the prospects7 of the future, yet, as soon as he had recovered his consciousness, and given himself a rousing shake, he found an immediate9 source of pleasure in discovering, first, that several ladies and gentlemen bore him company in his imprisonment10; and, secondly11, in perceiving a huge jug12 of water within his reach, which, as his awaking sensation was that of burning thirst, he delightedly emptied at a draught13. He then, stretching himself, looked around with a wistful earnestness, and discovered a back turned towards him, and recumbent on the floor, which at the very first glance appeared to him familiar. “Surely,” thought he, “I know that frieze14 coat, and the peculiar15 turn of those narrow shoulders.” Thus soliloquizing, he raised himself, and putting out his leg, he gently kicked the reclining form. “Muttering strange oaths,” the form turned round, and raising itself upon that inhospitable part of the body in which the introduction of foreign feet is considered anything but an honour, it fixed16 its dull blue eyes upon the face of the disturber of its slumbers17, gradually opening them wider and wider, until they seemed to have enlarged themselves into proportions fit for the swallowing of the important truth that burst upon them, and then from the mouth of the creature issued —
“Queer my glims, if that be n’t little Paul!”
“Ay, Dummie, here I am! Not been long without being laid by the heels, you see! Life is short; we must make the best use of our time!”
Upon this, Mr. Dunnaker (it was no less respectable a person) scrambled18 up from the floor, and seating himself on the bench beside Paul, said in a pitying tone —
“Vy, laus-a-me! if you be n’t knocked o’ the head! Your poll’s as bloody19 as Murphy’s face ven his throat’s cut!”
[“Murphy’s face,“unlearned reader, appeareth, in Irish phrase, to mean “pig’s head.”]
“‘T is only the fortune of war, Dummie, and a mere20 trifle; the heads manufactured at Thames Court are not easily put out of order. But tell me, how come you here?”
“Vy, I had been lushing heavy vet21 —”
“‘Till you grew light in the head, eh — and fell into the kennel22?”
“Yes.”
“Mine is a worse business than that, I fear;” and therewith Paul, in a lower voice, related to the trusty Dummie the train of accidents which had conducted him to his present asylum24. Dummie’s face elongated25 as he listened; however, when the narrative26 was over, he endeavoured such consolatory27 palliatives as occurred to him. He represented, first, the possibility that the gentleman might not take the trouble to appear; secondly, the certainty that no watch was found about Paul’s person; thirdly, the fact that, even by the gentleman’s confession28, Paul had not been the actual offender29; fourthly, if the worst came to the worst, what were a few weeks’ or even months’ imprisonment?
“Blow me tight!” said Dummie, “if it be n’t as good a vay of passing the time as a cove8 as is fond of snuggery need desire!”
This observation had no comfort for Paul, who recoiled30, with all the maiden31 coyness of one to whom such unions are unfamiliar32, from a matrimonial alliance with the snuggery of the House of Correction. He rather trusted to another source for consolation33. In a word, he encouraged the flattering belief that Long Ned, finding that Paul had been caught instead of himself, would have the generosity34 to come forward and exculpate35 him from the charge. On hinting this idea to Dummie, that accomplished36 “man about town” could not for some time believe that any simpleton could be so thoroughly37 unacquainted with the world as seriously to entertain so ridiculous a notion; and, indeed, it is somewhat remarkable38 that such a hope should ever have told its flattering tale to one brought up in the house of Mrs. Margaret Lobkins. But Paul, we have seen, had formed many of his notions from books; and he had the same fine theories of your “moral rogue” that possess the minds of young patriots39 when they first leave college for the House of Commons, and think integrity a prettier thing than office.
Mr. Dunnaker urged Paul, seriously, to dismiss so vague and childish a fancy from his breast, and rather to think of what line of defence it would be best for him to pursue. This subject being at length exhausted40, Paul recurred41 to Mrs. Lobkins, and inquired whether Dummie had lately honoured that lady with a visit.
Mr. Dunnaker replied that he had, though with much difficulty, appeased42 her anger against him for his supposed abetment43 of Paul’s excesses, and that of late she had held sundry44 conversations with Dummie respecting our hero himself. Upon questioning Dummie further, Paul learned the good matron’s reasons for not evincing that solicitude45 for his return which our hero had reasonably anticipated. The fact was, that she, having no confidence whatsoever46 in his own resources independent of her, had not been sorry of an opportunity effectually, as she hoped, to humble47 that pride which had so revolted her; and she pleased her vanity by anticipating the time when Paul, starved into submission48, would gladly and penitently49 re-seek the shelter of her roof, and, tamed as it were by experience, would never again kick against the yoke50 which her matronly prudence51 thought it fitting to impose upon him. She contented52 herself, then, with obtaining from Dummie the intelligence that our hero was under MacGrawler’s roof, and therefore out of all positive danger to life and limb; and as she could not foresee the ingenious exertions53 of intellect by which Paul had converted himself into the “Nobilitas” of “The Asinaeum,” and thereby54 saved himself from utter penury55, she was perfectly56 convinced, from her knowledge of character, that the illustrious MacGrawler would not long continue that protection to the rebellious57 protege which in her opinion was his only preservative58 from picking pockets or famishing. To the former decent alternative she knew Paul’s great and jejune59 aversion; and she consequently had little fear for his morals or his safety, in thus abandoning him for a while to chance. Any anxiety, too, that she might otherwise have keenly experienced was deadened by the habitual60 intoxication61 now increasing upon the good lady with age, and which, though at times she could be excited to all her characteristic vehemence62, kept her senses for the most part plunged63 into a Lethean stupor64, or, to speak more courteously65, into a poetical66 abstraction from the things of the external world.
“But,” said Dummie, as by degrees he imparted the solution of the dame’s conduct to the listening ear of his companion — “but I hopes as how ven you be out of this ’ere scrape, leetle Paul, you vill take varning, and drop Meester Pepper’s acquaintance (vich, I must say, I vas alvays a sorry to see you hencourage), and go home to the Mug, and fam grasp the old mort, for she has not been like the same cretur ever since you vent67. She’s a delicate-‘arted ‘oman, that Piggy Lob!”
So appropriate a panegyric68 on Mrs. Margaret Lobkins might at another time have excited Paul’s risible69 muscles; but at that moment he really felt compunction for the unceremonious manner in which he had left her, and the softness of regretful affection imbued70 in its hallowing colours even the image of Piggy Lob.
In conversation of this intellectual and domestic description, the night and ensuing morning passed away, till Paul found himself in the awful presence of Justice Burnflat. Several cases were disposed of before his own; and among others Mr. Duminie Dunnaker obtained his release, though not without a severe reprimand for his sin of inebriety71, which no doubt sensibly affected72 the ingenuous73 spirit of that noble character. At length Paul’s turn came. He heard, as he took his station, a general buzz. At first he imagined it was at his own interesting appearance; but raising his eyes, he perceived that it was at the entrance of the gentleman who was to become his accuser.
“Hush,” said some one near him, “‘t is Lawyer Brandon. Ah, he’s a ‘cute fellow! it will go hard with the person he complains of.”
There was a happy fund of elasticity74 of spirit about our hero; and though he had not the good fortune to have “a blighted75 heart,”— a circumstance which, by the poets and philosophers of the present day, is supposed to inspire a man with wonderful courage, and make him impervious76 to all misfortunes — yet he bore himself up with wonderful courage under his present trying situation, and was far from overwhelmed, though he was certainly a little damped, by the observation he had just heard.
Mr. Brandon was, indeed, a barrister of considerable reputation, and in high esteem77 in the world, not only for talent, but also for a great austerity of manners, which, though a little mingled78 with sternness and acerbity79 for the errors of other men, was naturally thought the more praiseworthy on that account; there being, as persons of experience are doubtless aware, two divisions in the first class of morality — imprimis, a great hatred80 for the vices82 of one’s neighbour; secondly, the possession of virtues83 in one’s self.
Mr. Brandon was received with great courtesy by Justice Burnflat; and as he came, watch in hand (a borrowed watch), saying that his time was worth five guineas a moment, the justice proceeded immediately to business.
Nothing could be clearer, shorter, or more satisfactory than the evidence of Mr. Brandon. The corroborative84 testimony85 of the watchman followed; and then Paul was called upon for his defence. This was equally brief with the charge; but, alas86! it was not equally satisfactory. It consisted in a firm declaration of his innocence87. His comrade, he confessed, might have stolen the watch; but he humbly88 suggested that that was exactly the very reason why he had not stolen it.
“How long, fellow,” asked Justice Burnflat, “have you known your companion?”
“About half a year.”
“And what is his name and calling?” Paul hesitated, and declined to answer.
“A sad piece of business!” said the justice, in a melancholy89 tone, and shaking his head portentously90.
The lawyer acquiesced91 in the aphorism92, but with great magnanimity observed that he did not wish to be hard upon the young man. His youth was in his favour, and his offence was probably the consequence of evil company. He suggested, therefore, that as he must be perfectly aware of the address of his friend, he should receive a full pardon if he would immediately favour the magistrate93 with that information. He concluded by remarking, with singular philanthropy, that it was not the punishment of the youth, but the recovery of his watch, that he desired.
Justice Burnflat, having duly impressed upon our hero’s mind the disinterested94 and Christian95 mercy of the complainant, and the everlasting96 obligation Paul was under to him for its display, now repeated, with double solemnity, those queries97 respecting the habitation and name of Long Ned which our hero had before declined to answer.
Grieved are we to confess that Paul, ungrateful for and wholly untouched by the beautiful benignity98 of Lawyer Brandon, continued firm in his stubborn denial to betray his comrade; and with equal obduracy99 he continued to insist upon his own innocence and unblemished respectability of character.
“Your name, young man?” quoth the justice. “Your name, you say, is Paul — Paul what? You have many an alias100, I’ll be bound.”
Here the young gentleman again hesitated; at length he replied —
“Paul Lobkins, your worship.”
“Lobkins!” repeated the judge — “Lobkins! Come hither, Saunders; have not we that name down in our black books?”
“So, please your worship,” quoth a little stout101 man, very useful in many respects to the Festus of the police, “there is one Peggy Lobkins, who keeps a public-house, a sort of flash ken23, called the Mug, in Thames Court — not exactly in our beat, your worship.”
“Ho, ho!” said Justice Burnflat; winking102 at Mr. Brandon, “we must sift103 this a little. Pray, Mr. Paul Lobkins, what relation is the good landlady104 of the Mug, in Thames Court, to yourself?”
“None at all, sir,” said Paul, hastily; “she’s only a friend!”
Upon this there was a laugh in the court.
“Silence!” cried the justice. “And I dare say, Mr. Paul Lobkins, that this friend of yours will vouch105 for the respectability of your character, upon which you are pleased to value yourself?”
“I have not a doubt of it, sir,” answered Paul; and there was another laugh.
“And is there any other equally weighty and praiseworthy friend of yours who will do you the like kindness?”
Paul hesitated; and at that moment, to the surprise of the court, but above all to the utter and astounding106 surprise of himself, two gentlemen, dressed in the height of the fashion, pushed forward, and bowing to the justice, declared themselves ready to vouch for the thorough respectability and unimpeachable107 character of Mr. Paul Lobkins, whom they had known, they said, for many years, and for whom they had the greatest respect. While Paul was surveying the persons of these kind friends, whom he never remembered to have seen before in the course of his life, the lawyer, who was a very sharp fellow, whispered to the magistrate; and that dignitary nodding as in assent108, and eying the new-comers, inquired the names of Mr. Lobkins’s witnesses.
“Mr. Eustace Fitzherbert” and “Mr. William Howard Russell,” were the several replies.
Names so aristocratic produced a general sensation. But the impenetrable justice, calling the same Mr. Saunders he had addressed before, asked him to examine well the countenances110 of Mr. Lobkins’s friends.
As the alguazil eyed the features of the memorable111 Don Raphael and the illustrious Manuel Morales, when the former of those accomplished personages thought it convenient to assume the travelling dignity of an Italian prince, son of the sovereign of the valleys which lie between Switzerland, the Milanese, and Savoy, while the latter was contented with being servant to Monseigneur le Prince; even so, with far more earnestness than respect; did Mr. Saunders eye the features of those high-born gentlemen, Messrs. Eustace Fitzherbert and William Howard Russell; but after a long survey he withdrew his eyes, made an unsatisfactory and unrecognizing gesture to the magistrate, and said —
“Please your worship, they are none of my flock; but Bill Troutling knows more of this sort of genteel chaps than I does.”
“Bid Bill Troutling appear!” was the laconic112 order.
At that name a certain modest confusion might have been visible in the faces of Mr. Eustace Fitzherbert and Mr. William Howard Russell, had not the attention of the court been immediately directed to another case. A poor woman had been committed for seven days to the House of Correction on a charge of disrespectability. Her husband, the person most interested in the matter, now came forward to disprove the charge; and by help of his neighbours he succeeded.
“It is all very true,” said Justice Burnflat; “but as your wife, my good fellow, will be out in five days, it will be scarcely worth while to release her now.”
[A fact, occurring in the month of January, 1830. Vide “The Morning Herald113.”]
So judicious114 a decision could not fail of satisfying the husband; and the audience became from that moment enlightened as to a very remarkable truth — namely, that five days out of seven bear a peculiarly small proportion to the remaining two; and that people in England have so prodigious115 a love for punishment that though it is not worth while to release an innocent woman from prison five days sooner than one would otherwise have done, it is exceedingly well worth while to commit her to prison for seven!
When the husband, passing his rough hand across his eyes, and muttering some vulgar impertinence or another had withdrawn116, Mr. Saunders said —
“Here be Bill Troutling, your worship!”
“Oh, well,” quoth the justice; “and now, Mr. Eustace Fitz —— Hallo, how’s this! Where are Mr. William Howard Russell and his friend Mr. Eustace Fitzherbert?”
“Echo answered — where?”
Those noble gentlemen, having a natural dislike to be confronted with so low a person as Mr. Bill Troutling, had, the instant public interest was directed from them, silently disappeared from a scene where their rank in life seemed so little regarded. If, reader, you should be anxious to learn from what part of the world the transitory visitants appeared, know that they were spirits sent by that inimitable magician, Long Ned, partly to report how matters fared in the court; for Mr. Pepper, in pursuance of that old policy which teaches that the nearer the fox is to the hunters, the more chance he has of being overlooked, had, immediately on his abrupt117 departure from Paul, dived into a house in the very street where his ingenuity118 had displayed itself, and in which oysters119 and ale nightly allured120 and regaled an assembly that, to speak impartially121, was more numerous than select. There had he learned how a pickpocket122 had been seized for unlawful affection to another man’s watch; and there, while he quietly seasoned his oysters, had he, with his characteristic acuteness, satisfied his mind by the conviction that that arrested unfortunate was no other than Paul. Partly, therefore, as a precaution for his own safety, that he might receive early intelligence should Paul’s defence make a change of residence expedient123, and partly (out of the friendliness124 of fellowship) to back his companion with such aid as the favourable125 testimony of two well-dressed persons, little known “about town,” might confer, he had despatched those celestial126 beings who had appeared under the mortal names of Eustace Fitzherbert and William Howard Russell to the imperial court of Justice Burnflat. Having thus accounted for the apparition127 (the disapparition requires no commentary) of Paul’s “friends,” we return to Paul himself.
Despite the perils128 with which he was girt, our young hero fought out to the last; but the justice was not by any means willing to displease129 Mr. Brandon, and observing that an incredulous and biting sneer130 remained stationary131 on that gentleman’s lip during the whole of Paul’s defence, he could not but shape his decision according to the well-known acuteness of the celebrated132 lawyer. Paul was sentenced to retire for three months to that country-house situated133 at Bridewell, to which the ungrateful functionaries134 of justice often banish135 their most active citizens.
As soon as the sentence was passed, Brandon, whose keen eyes saw no hope of recovering his lost treasure, declared that the rascal136 had perfectly the Old Bailey cut of countenance109, and that he did not doubt but, if ever he lived to be a judge, he should also live to pass a very different description of sentence on the offender.
So saying, he resolved to lose no more time, and very abruptly137 left the office, without any other comfort than the remembrance that, at all events, he had sent the boy to a place where, let him be ever so innocent at present, he was certain to come out as much inclined to be guilty as his friends could desire; joined to such moral reflection as the tragedy of Bombastes Furioso might have afforded to himself in that sententious and terse138 line —
“Thy watch is gone — watches are made to go.”
Meanwhile Paul was conducted in state to his retreat, in company with two other offenders139 — one a middle-aged140 man, though a very old “file,” who was sentenced for getting money under false pretences141, and the other a little boy who had been found guilty of sleeping under a colonnade142; it being the especial beauty of the English law to make no fine-drawn and nonsensical shades of difference between vice81 and misfortune, and its peculiar method of protecting the honest being to make as many rogues143 as possible in as short a space of time.
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