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CHAPTER IX.
ABYSSUS ABYSSUM VOCAT.
Another face, disappeared--Tom-Jim-Jack's. Suddenly he ceased to
frequent the Tadcaster Inn.
Persons so situated as to be able to observe other phases of fashionable
life in London, might have seen that about this time the Weekly
Gazette, between two extracts from parish registers, announced the
departure of Lord David Dirry-Moir, by order of her Majesty, to take
command of his frigate in the white squadron then cruising off the coast
of Holland.
Ursus, perceiving that Tom-Jim-Jack did not return, was troubled by his
absence. He had not seen Tom-Jim-Jack since the day on which he had
driven off in the same carriage with the lady of the gold piece. It was,
indeed, an enigma who this Tom-Jim-Jack could be, who carried off
duchesses under his arm. What an interesting investigation! What
questions to propound! What things to be said. Therefore Ursus said not
a word.
Ursus, who had had experience, knew the smart caused by rash curiosity.
Curiosity ought always to be proportioned to the curious. By listening,
we risk our ear; by watching, we risk our eye. Prudent people neither
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