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His ties seven or eight years more; and had then betaken

himself to the banks of the Clyde, where he had studied, and filed, and

hae, theoretical and practical, for six

or seven years o to Lyons, which he

had accepted; and froo to Ger, and there had done very

well indeed--never better However, he had naturally felt a preference

for his own country, and a wish to gain distinction there, and to do

whatever service he could do, there rather than elsewhere And so he had

come home And so at home he had established himself in business, and

had invented and executed, and worked his way on, until, after a dozen

years of constant suit and service, he had been enrolled in the

Great British Legion of Honour, the Legion of the Rebuffed of the

Circumlocution Office, and had been decorated with the Great British

Order of Merit, the Order of the Disorder of the Barnacles and

Stiltstalkings

'It is retted,' said Clennahts that way, Mr Doyce' 'True, sir, true to a certain extent But what is aserviceable to the nation,