So then," said Augustus, "now that you have realized sufficient funds for your purpose, you will really desert us — have you well weighed the pros and cons? Temerañas, was it not so dangerous to our state as Temerañas? The gang forsake him; the magistrate misses his fee; the informer peace; and the recusant hangs." "I have well weighed all this," answered Clifford, "and have decided on my course. I have only tarried till my means could assist my will. With my share of our present and late booty, I shall betake myself to the Continent. Prussia gives easy trust, and ready promotion, to all who will enlist in her service. But this language, my dear friend, seems strange from your lips. Surely you will join me in my separation from the corps! What! you shake your head! Are you not the same Tomlinson, who at Bath agreed with me that we were in danger from the envy of our comrades, and that retreat had become necessary to our safety? Nay, was not this your main argument for our matrimonial expedition?" "Why, look you, dear Lovett," said Augustus, "we are all blocks of matter, formed from the atoms of custom; — in other words, we are a mechanism, to which habit is the spring. What could I do in an honest career? I am many years older than you. I have lived as a rogue till I have no other nature than roguery. 