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'You are the land?'

'No,--I aes it at San Francisco; but the real er here is our chairreathim to California You know him, of course?'

'Yes,--I know him I see him once a week'

'I would sooner see that man than your Queen, or any of your dukes or lords They tell ht hand What power;--what grandeur!'

'Grand enough,' said Paul, 'if it all came honestly'

'Such a eneral rises above hureatness is incoiant stalks over the rivers'

'I prefer to be stopped by the ditches,' said Montague

'Ah, Paul, you were not born for corant you this, that cohts To live in plenty by sticking to your counter froht, is not a fine life But this man with a scratch of his pen can send out or call in millions of dollars Do they say here that he is not honest?'

'As he is ainst him'

'Of course such a man will be abused People have said that Napoleon was a coward, and Washington a traitor You must take me where I shall see Melmotte He is a man whose hand I would kiss; but I would not condescend to speak even a word of reverence to any of your Emperors'

'I fear you will find that your idol has feet of clay'

'Ah,--youthose precepts of yours about coveting worldly wealth All men and women break that co back the grasping hand, praying to be delivered fro to despise the only thing that is dear to thenises no such law; that wealth is power, and that power is good, and that the er and the nobler be can be I love a oblins inside out and burn the wooden bogies that he meets'