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wasn't for Cousin Peter, I was heir to ten thousand a year; but

good Cousin Peter was so fond of Uncle George, and Uncle George

was so fond of good Cousin Peter, that Mauriceand be daies!" said I

"Still, I have sometimes been curious tothat I have never done so"

"On the contrary--" I began, but his laugh stopped me

"Ah, to be sure!" he nodded, "our ways have lain widely separate

hitherto--you, a scholar, treading the difficult path of

learning; I--oh, egad! a terrible fellow! a ! But after all, cousin, when one coht stand for a terrible exa spectacle of dutiful respect and good

precedent cut off with a shilling Really, it is horrifying to

observe to what depths Virtue e an otherell-balanced

individual Little drea

relatives and friends--damn 'eetting into hot water and out again, up

to his eyes in debt, and pretty well esteemed, the virtuous

pattern Peter would descend to a harienius Indeed, this firstof ours, under

these circumstances, is somewhat dramatic, as it should be"