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"My dear Fred, you can't change the accidents of birth"

"In a great measure I can; or at least we can do so between us You can't be Lord Scroope, but you can be master of Scroope Manor"

"No I can't;--and, which is more, I won't Don't think I am uncivil"

"You are uncivil, Jack"

"At any rate I ahly that such an arrangement is out of the question In no condition of life would I care to be the locum tenens for another man You are now five or six and twenty At thirty you may be a married man with an absolute need for your own house"

"I would execute any deed"

"So that I ht be enabled to keep the owner of the property out of the only place that is fit for him! It is a pohich I should not use, and do not wish to possess Believe me, Fred, that a man is bound to submit himself to the circumstances by which he is surrounded, when it is clear that they are beneficial to the world at large There must be an Earl of Scroope, and you at present are the ether out upon the terrace after dinner, and for a ti for the young lord, and it was out of his power to deal with one so doget the last words that had been spoken It ," he said at last

"Any of us may die to-day or to-morrow," said Jack

"I have a kind of presentiment,--not that I shall die, but that I shall never see Scroope again It see for ever a place that has always been distasteful toof presentiments"

"No; of course not You're not that sort of fellow at all But I aies about the place all doing nothing, touching their hats,respectable, but as idle as pickpockets"

"You'll have to do it"

"Perhaps I shall, but I don't think it" Then there was again silence for a tiot a very difficult job before me in Ireland"

"I don't envy you, Fred;--not that"

"It is no use talking about it It has got to be done, and the sooner done the better What I shall do when it is done, I have not thethis daycertainly, and that is that I shall not come back here There never was a fellow so loose about the world as I am"