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Excerpt from Sketches in Ultra-Marine, Vol. 2
To fraternise. But Highlow, though fast, was that melancholy variety of the fast tribe - a fast Prig. Does the reader know this order of young fellows - solemn, conceited little sinners - grave, pompous reprobates fellows, as Fontenoy once said to me in his savage way, who voluntarily associate with the devil, and yet seem to feel that they are patronising him 1 Highlow was one of these, then - while Alfred was really a good fellow at bottom; he loved to write to a prize fighter, and seal with the Highlow shield, not knowing, as connoisseurs in heraldry do, that he had no right to use his mother's arms - his father not having any. Such was the youth ful Sempster, Who has since sat for a borough, and married into a government office, under the auspices of old Riprigger, who gives young gentlemen situations, on condition of their taking one of his daughters into the bargain. A more determined aristocrat than Sempster does not of course exist now; for in our times Mammon is the most bigoted of all aristocrats. If you want to boast of your blue blood, do it in the com pany of men of fortune, whose grandfathers were tradesmen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.