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"Ah, ht to look for respect! I must appear to you the s But lately I blushed to see you froh more worthily employed than when I had been seen by you in affluence; that shame vanquished, another equally narrow took its place, and yesterday I blushed again that you detected h I had only quitted my former one from a conviction it was ill chosen There seems in human nature a worthlessness not to be conquered! yet I will struggle with it to the last, and either die in the atte to theof dastardly false shae is wonderfully altered within this twelvemonth," said Mr Monckton; "the worthlessness of human nature! the miseries of life! this froyrist of human life!"

"Soured by personal disappointment," answered he, "I may perhaps speak with too much acried Happiness is given to us with ly, and of that we have so little, that when felicity is before us, we turn to the right or left, or when at the right or left, we proceed strait forward It has been so with er, when all that I could wish has been irasp"

"It must be owned," said Mr Monckton, "after what you have suffered from this world you ont to defend, there is little reason to wonder at soe in your opinion"

"Yet whatever have been enerally been involved in them by my own rashness or caprice My last enterprise especially, froed of any I considered not how little , how irreparably I was enervated by long sedentary habits, and how insufficient for bodily strength was ainst partial prejudices, and by spirit and fortitude we eneral tenor of education Weestablished, and habits long indulged, assuh their power is but prescriptive Opposing them is vain; Nature herself, when forced aside, is not more elastic in her rebound"