Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846

"Ten--fifteen--thirty--all plump full-weighted coins of Fernando Septimo and Carlos Quarto. Truly, Jaime, the trade thou drivest is a pleasant and profitable one. Little to do, and good pay for it."

Chapters

9. Chapter 9

Frank Trevelyan, one morning on opening his eyes, was surprised to discover his friend, Mr Vernon Wycherley, (whose lameness was by this time sufficiently amended to permit him...

1. Chapter 1

"Ten--fifteen--thirty--all plump full-weighted coins of Fernando Septimo and Carlos Quarto. Truly, Jaime, the trade thou drivest is a pleasant and profitable one. Little to do,...

4. Chapter 4

Twice has Mr Warren de Fitzalbert closed a chapter for us, and put us under lasting obligation. Fain would we introduce that very important personage to the reader's more partic...

7. Chapter 7

In a town that shall be nameless, but which was situate somewhere or other in the West of England, there lived some years since--no matter how many--a young man, called Job Vivi...

8. Chapter 8

The two years that followed Job's untoward accident, instead of mending his fortunes, had only added to his embarrassments--all owing to his being just a hundred pounds behind t...

2. Chapter 2

"It's no good your talking, Aby," said a diminutive gentleman, with a Roman nose and generally antique visage; "you must do the best you can for yourself, and get your living in...

6. Chapter 6

Frank Trevelyan was so much taken aback by a sight so totally unexpected, that his confident assurance for the moment forsook him, and with a countenance suffused with blushes,...

3. Chapter 3

Whilst the domestic _tête-à-tête_, feebly described in the foregoing chapter, was in progress, the nobleman, more than once referred to, was passing miserable moments in his tem...

5. Chapter 5

It was a lovely morning, notwithstanding it was November--the rain had wholly ceased, and the clear and almost cloudless sky showed every indication of a fine day; so that Frank...