The things we do!

But, such as they are, they have been productive of benefit.--Thank
you, Mary, and my dear, the tap is uncommonly good, and I drink to your
future husband's good health.--A glass of good sound beer refreshes after
all that claret. Well, sir, to return to the Pencillings, pardon my
vanity in saying, that though Mr. Pendennis laughs at them, they have
been of essential service to the paper. They give it a character, they
rally round it the respectable classes. They create correspondence. I
have received many interesting letters, chiefly from females, about the
Pencillings. Some complain that their favourite preachers are slighted;
others applaud because the clergymen they sit under are supported by
F. B. I am Laud Latimer, sir,--though I have heard the letters attributed
to the Rev. Mr. Bunker, and to a Member of Parliament eminent in the
religious world."
"So you are the famous Laud Latimer?" cries Clive, who had, in fact, seen
letters signed by those right reverend names in our paper.


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