Page 62 (1/2)

"Not a word!" said I Mr Beverley glanced atof pity and surprise "My life," I explained, "has been

altogether a studious one, with the not altogether unnatural

result that I also as and sixpence in my pocket"

"And ether riotous

one Thus each of us, though by widely separate roads--you by the

narrow and difficult path of Virtue, and I by the broad and easy

road of Folly--have

Destitution, which ill call Nowhere-in-Particular Then how

does your path of Virtue better my road of Evil?"

"The point to be considered," said I, "is not so much

are, but rather, e have done, andto look at me

"For my own achieveh Ju the Hammer, also translated the works of

Quintilian, with the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, and the Life,

Lives, and Meneur de Brantome, which last, as you

are probably aware, has never before been done into the English"