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and will, of course, after a year or two's growth of cobwebs, be let for a 

 coffee-house, or an ormola cow-house to that very fashionable body, the 

 Zoological Society. 



The retreat of the Marquis is occasioned by his having only lOO.OOOJ. 

 a year, a sum on which no marquis can support existence, and on which 

 any man of the true kind of feeling in these matters, ought only to starve. 

 So, he goes abroad, like our operatives to America, for cheap bread. 

 He will save some pence a day on the Continent, have macaroni at first 

 cost, and die as valuable to mankind as he lived. 



Mummy (awaking). You were talking about champagne, were you 

 not ? Has a new batch arrived ? any of Hertford's ? 



Lancer. No : you may lead the life of a water-drinker, and die with 

 no more gout than a charger, if you wait till you open a flask of his. 

 Have you not heard the story ? Ah, but you're of the Royal Society 

 and, of course, know nothing of what the world is talking about. 



The Marquis's cook, who of course enjoys with him the privileges 

 of the most supreme authority, at one of his feasts, insisted on 

 stewing the venison in champagne. This extravagance was met 

 by something approaching to rebellion on the. part of Monseigneur 

 le Marquis. But Monseigneur le Casserole was too conscious of 

 the strength of his position to yield. As in family battles, like all 

 others, the victory is au plus opiniatre, as Napoleon says, the cook 

 triumphed, and the champagne was to be sacrificed. But my lord 

 had been too long about the skirts of a court to be without a 

 contrivance in time of need. He privately despatched a messenger to 

 his friend Wright, for a dozen. The dozen was sent ; the cook mysti- 

 fied ; the dish pronounced unique ; the Marquis's cuisine lauded to the 

 skies ; and all this triumph enhanced by the delight of conceiving that 

 he had purchased it for thirty shillings ! 



Jonathan Wild. There is not a man from this to Jerusalem that 

 brings his money to a better market than the Marquis. But how 

 did this drive him abroad ? it was much more likely to have kept him 

 at home. 



Lancer. In a week after, the vintner waited on him, to thank 

 him for having introduced his wine into high life, and presented his bill. 

 My lord was electrified. It came out, that the fellow, thinking that his 

 ordinary commodity could not have been intended by the order, had 

 actually procured some first-rate champagne ; and with this the venison 

 was stewed. The vintner was settled with, of course ; but the Marquis 

 never smiled again. 



Rat (talking to Flourish, aside. They are looking over a succession 

 of caricatures). The affair is too delicate. They might put him out of 

 humour. It might be thought impudent. 



Flourish. Never fear the march of talent; impudence is the true 

 security. Impudence works its way with kings, queenS, and rabble. It 

 is the only faculty of nine-tenths of all the rising fellows of the day. 

 See how it supplies the place of education, brains, birth, and breeding. 

 It teaches one all that he knows of finance, and the English language ; 

 another, all that he knows of common law, or common sense ; to another 

 it is principle ; and to all profit. It catches the ear of a monarch, and 

 the heart of a mistress. I have known it give a dasher the reputation 

 of a rent-roll ; with three executions on -his tandem, and his worldly 

 possessions limited to his coat; and give another the reputation of 



