ON TORQUAY AND ITS ENVIRONS. 225 



she had sold my thirty thousand pounds, which I 

 was sure was in my pocket, to a man I hated, for 

 one hundred and twenty guineas, which she ex- 

 ultingly exhibited, and which, with thirty-five more, 

 went to pay for the baubles I had brought her 

 home." 



" I could not have stood that,*' said the Win- 

 kleman. 

 , ic ]\j-^j. j^»' g^j^ ^Y\e weeping husband. 



'^ I," said Saville, " should have cut my throat." 



" So I did, Sir !" said the melancholy gentleman, 



"and here are the marks where it was sewn up V — 



exhibiting, at the same moment, a huge scar right 



across the windpipe. 



To describe the sudden coil-up of the three lis- 

 teners, when the narrator of his own misfortunes 

 made this disclosure, would be impossible ; — in a 

 moment they unanimously construed all his previous 

 observations and remarks into symptoms of his yet 

 latent malady ; and never were rightly at their ease 

 until they were blessed with the sight of his back, 

 as he descended the steps of the coach at the door 

 of the Dolphin, at Petersfield. 



ON TORQUAY AND ITS ENVIRONS. 



Torquay is one of those places which has rapidly grown into 

 notice of late years, although it was formerly little more than a 

 collection of fishermen's huts, scattered at irregular distances, and 

 distinguished only for a plentiful supply of fish. It was at some 

 distant period, that the enlightened schemes of Sir Lawrence Palk 

 raised Torquay from the obscurity in which it had so long slept, 

 and brought those unrivalled beauties of scenery which it possesses 

 prominently before the public attention ; and it is to the inde- 

 fatigable industry and unweared efforts of this liberal-minded 

 baronet, that Torquay owes its present fashionable celebrity : 

 and although those bounties which have been lavished by nature 

 so freely, are such as could not escape the eye of the man of 

 feeling, or poet, yet notwithstanding these of themselves would 



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