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he put as much putty in it as a horse could draw, 

 before he painted it up." 



"Confound the fellow," says Fred., "I wish the 

 putty had been in his throat to have stopped his 

 blabbing ; we must give the rascal five guineas, and 

 make him go and swear he had mistaken the carriage 

 for another that he did up for me before ; and if the 

 Colonel should go to TattersalTs to make any inquiry, 

 it has been too much altered to be known there. As 

 to the horses, we are pretty sure the men in our own 

 stable won't squeak ; if it can't be proved they were 

 lame with us, we are all right ; and if I oifer to take 

 them back at the same price, and draw a hundred in 

 changing them for my other pair, we shall do." 



" I think we shall, Sir," said the man, with a kind 

 of equivocal smile, on hearing the word do. 



A well-known knock at the street door for once 

 called the blood into Fred.'s cheek. 



" You may go, Dawson," said he, rising to meet the 

 expected visitor. 



A plain-dressed gentlemanly man now made his 

 appearance, who, from the likeness to the son, it was 

 easy to recognise as the elder Mr. Manderville. 



" Delighted to see you, father," said Fred., assuming 

 an air of perfect ease and nonchalance. 



" If such is the case, Frederic, and my presence is 

 welcome from the hope that I shall farther contribute 

 to your extravagance, you will find I. have now 

 learned how to appreciate your repeated promises of 

 amendment ; and you will not in future find in me the 

 infatuated parent I have been for many years, indeed, 

 always." 



" What infatuation, my dear Sir, have you to accuse 

 yourself of." 



