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"Just so: I think so: and you shall be answerable for it

Criticise me: does my forehead not please you?"

He lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his

brow, and showed a solid enough ans, but an

abrupt deficiency where the suave sign of benevolence should have

risen

"Now, ma'am, am I a fool?"

"Far from it, sir You would, perhaps, think me rude if I inquired

in return whether you are a philanthropist?"

"There again! Another stick of the penknife, when she pretended to

pat my head: and that is because I said I did not like the society

of children and old woeneral philanthropist; but I bear a conscience;" and he

pointed to the prominences which are said to indicate that faculty,

and which, fortunately for hi, indeed, a marked breadth to the upper part of his head:

"and, besides, I once had a kind of rude tenderness of heart When

I was as old as you, I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the

unfledged, unfostered, and unlucky; but Fortune has knocked me about

since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter