text:  By this means he had the satisfaction of congratulating the dean upon the birth of a nephew in the person of a son and heir of the Moggs: and though so carefully did that gentleman avoid all communication with his tormentor that he was obliged for two whole days to watch an opportunity to convey the intelligence; yet as he finally succeeded in announcing it in the presence of the tutor of a neighbouring college who was a profound genealogist and a great gossip his pains he declared were sufficiently repaid