Rosina Bulwer Lytton

“ What I would give to have seen Sir Liar's face when he read what the spirit, and a very proper spirit too, had moved the Quaker to write to him! No wonder that God's judgement overtook him, and that soon after, being more mad and outrageous than usual, the great man (very) was packed off to Algiers with two keepers. "Vengeance is Mine, saith the Lord, I will repay."
It would appear that E_____ J_____, not having told lies enough, and done dirty work enough in the country, must needs re-commence after his outlawry ”

“ And as, like all knaves, these cowardly wretches are mortally afraid of an honest, straightforward, and resolute man, and of my fighting Quaker in particular, he has ever since, now four years, paid me to the day, and got the money from them by return of post. Meanwhile that dastardly villain, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, is comfortably playing out his game of lies ”

“ I must say, all the good that is to be found in the English character, is among the middle class, and this arises more from their strong commercial instinct, than anything else; they will give an apple, where they are perfectly sure of getting an orchard, or perhaps two; but the upper and lower classes invariably swindle--or at least try to swindle--you out of the orchard, without even giving you an apple-pip for it. Like a poor fool, I went to town, and made an appointment with Dr. Oily Gammon to go to Mr. ”

“ Oily Gammon write to Mr. Ironside, that he might state to him again in writing, what I have just told you, and which he had written a short time before to another gentleman! which letter I have. As my grinding poverty is always putting spokes in my wheel (and that is why I have been always kept poor) , I could not afford to remain in London, either at the houses of fine friends, or at an hotel, so that I returned here, begging Oily Gammon to let me know Mr. ”

“ But trust an English barrister risking a single brief by embroiling himself with an attorney if all the women in England had been skinned by them to save parchment. Mr. Cole no doubt thought he was doing gret things in getting me Mr. Comyn of Lincoln's Inne, his own solicitor (whose bill I had of course to pay) , to cut down that other bird of prey's extortion to £35, and at length got me back my papers, when time, and Cockburn, had given security and consolidation to that meanest of all ruffians, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, and as Mr. ”

“ R_____ about it (for after the mean and barefaced lies of the latter in the plot, and about Mr. Ironside's letter, I of course returned him his Normandy presents, and renounced all further intercourse with him) . Oily Gammon began by assuring Foden Lawrence, the Quaker, that of course he ought to be paid, and he should be paid. But, as usual, the vane did not long remain towards one point. So at last he wrote to say, he could not possibly recover the debt, not having it included in the schedule of the other Taunton tradespeople's claim. I then of course offered to pay it to the poor man. ”

“ Lawrence should be a loser, sent it!" The Quaker threw up his eyes piously, and said he hoped he whould never want food or raiment till Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was generous! or E_____ J_____s!!! and then sat down and wrote the Q.C. the following letter, of which I took a copy:--"I have to acknowledge the receipt of the £5 due to me by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, which he and thee should have sent long ago, without putting me to the trouble of County Courting him. If, as he says, he is neither legally nor morally obliged to pay it ”