text:  Preachers thank heaven! are seldom wanted; and on this occasion the part of Peter the Hermit was undertaken by Peter the Knight; for our old acquaintance the opponent of causeways the sworn enemy to granite the favourer of Macadam had worn the chain of office; had had his ears tickled for a whole year by the magic word my lord was as much of a knight as Sir Amadis de Gaul and much more of an alderman; had been a great dispenser of justice and sometimes a dispenser with law; had made himself a name before which that of the Curtises and Waithmans grew pale; and above all was at that very moment in want of a grievance