text:  But if on the contrary you are recommended to him by Lord Fly-by-night of Denman Priory--if you give a thundering order and instead of offering to pay for it pull out a parcel of bill-stamps and _promise_ fifty per cent for a few hundreds down you will be surprised to observe what delight will express itself in the radiant countenance of your victim: visions of cent per cent ghosts of post-obits dreams of bonds with penalties and all those various shapes in which security delights to involve the extravagant rise flatteringly before the inward eye of the man of shreds and patches