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Es" only. As for the grim Squire, for whom alone the narrative had been
served and garnished, at so very short a notice, he observed upon it,
that "when he had used up old Byam's brains he should now have the less
scruple in turning him out-of-doors, inasmuch as it seemed there was a
profession in town that was just suited to him." How wondrous is the
power of naked wealth--of the mere money! Simply because he had a large
rent-roll, this mad Carew could find not only companions of his own
calibre--reckless good-for-naughts, or dull debauchees--but could
command gray beard experience, wit, the art of pleasing, in one man; and
in another (what he was not less destitute of, and needed more), politic
management and common-sense. We do not say, as the Squire himself
sometimes did, when in a good-humor with his two satellites, that Parson
Whymper and Byam Ryll had more brains in their little fingers than all
his other friends had in their whole bodies, but it was certain that,
even when drunk,