The things we do!

James's Park; Jack sits alone with his sword dropped to the ground, or
only atra cura on the crupper behind him; and Snip, the tailor, in the
crowd, thinks it is for fear of him Jack's head droops. Lady Clara
Pulleyn is presented by her mother, the Countess of Dorking; and Jack is
arrested that night as he is going out of White's to meet her at the
Opera.
Jack's little exploits are known in the Insolvent Court, where he made
his appearances as Charles Belsize, commonly called the Honourable
Charles Belsize, whose dealings were smartly chronicled by the indignant
moralists of the press of those days. The Scourge flogged him heartily.
The Whip (of which the accomplished editor was himself in Whitecross
Street prison) was especially virtuous regarding him; and the Penny Voice
of Freedom gave him an awful dressing. I am not here to scourge sinners;
I am true to my party; it is the other side this humble pen attacks; let
us keep to the virtuous and respectable, for as for poor sinners they get
the whipping-post every day.


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