Excerpt from The Devil Upon Two Sticks in England, Vol. 3 of 6: Being a Continuation of Le Diable Boiteux of Le Sage And both at the banker's expense. -r But with what kind grace, said Don Cleofas, does he submit to the feeding people to laugh at him. 0, answered the De mon, he is not of the party: -if he were, they would lard him with compli ments, and sugar him over 'with flattery; but, as he happens to be absent, their oh servations respecting him are as piquant as his ragouts.-the fact is, that about half an hour previous to the arrival of his com pany, the banker received a letter from one of his partners, to request his immediate presence in the city, on a matter of the greatest import'ance.' This summons he thought it necessary to obey; and left a. 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.