"But that won't amount to nothing serious though. I know all about it." "Still, my good doctor, it would have been better had you looked well to those titles before she obtained a title to you." "But it's of no consequence. You see the case is just here: The captain, d'ye see, had something to do with another woman, who now claims the property for her children; but she wasn't his wife, and it will all come right, as my lawyer tells me, if I can only get him a few hundred dollars to carry it on." By this time I began to see much more of the poor fellow's case than he did himself. But as it was not particularly convenient for me to accommodate him with another advance, we parted for that time--he to live out his honey-moon in dreams of treasures shortly to be added to the bliss of "wedded love"--and I to indulge in a variety of reflections naturally arising upon the subject, which were doubtless very good, though long since forgotten. The sagacious reader will, perhaps, have no difficulty in arriving at the conclusion that my reflections and Doctor Wheelwright's treasures proved, in the end, of about equal value; and that neither would have been taken as good security by any bank or broker to whom application might have been made for a loan of the required funds. Whether such a conclusion, when arrived at, would be correct or not, will be discovered in a succeeding chapter. CHAPTER XI. PREPARES TO LIVE BY HIS LEARNING. "For now sits Expectation in the air."--_Shakspeare._ "A man, to be the governor of an island, should know something of grammar. 'Grammar?' replied Sancho, 'who the d----l is he?'"--_Don Quixotte._