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"Is it but on the stage, hunantly; "Oh thither hasten, then, ye rossers of wealth, which ye dissipate without enjoying, and of abundance, which ye waste while ye refuse to distribute! thither, thither haste, if there hu," said Mr Hobson, happy to hear at last a hich he was familiar, "it's what I never approved myself My maxim is this; if a s, why he has as much a title to enjoy his pleasure as the Chief Justice, or the Lord Chancellor: and it's odds but he's as happy as a greater h what I hold to be best of all, is a clear conscience, with a neat income of 2 or 3000 a year That's my notion; and I don't think it's a bad one"

"Weak policy of short-sighted ignorance!" cried Albany, "to wish for what, if used, brings care, and if neglected, remorse! have you not now beyond what nature craves? why then still sigh for s, who by dint of deep attention began now better to comprehend him, "why to buy in, to be sure! ever hear of stocks, eh? know any thing of money?"

"Still to make more and more," cried Albany, "and wherefore? to spend in vice and idleness, or hoard in chearless ive succour to the wretched, not to support the falling; all is for self, however little wanted, all goes to added stores, or added luxury; no fellow- creature served, nor even one beggar relieved!"

"Glad of it!" cried Briggs, "glad of it; would not have 'eht to be all whipt; live upon spunging"

"Why as to a beggar, I must needs say," cried Mr Hobson, "I a I take 'em all for cheats: for what I say is this, what a man earns, he earns, and it's no lishman is his owna subject, why a duke is no h Chancellor, and the like of those; whichhe is answerable to nobody by the right of Magna Charta: except in cases of treason, felony, and that But as to a beggar, it's quite another thing; he comes and asks me forstory that he i'n't worth a penny! what's that toat all Let every "