t mean only about money. We are likely to have
enough of that too, for my brother's old patients have almost all sent
for him again: but we care the less about that from having discovered
that we were as happy with little money as with much. But it is a
satisfaction and pleasure to find my brother regarded more and more as
he ought to be: and yet greater to see how nobly he deserves the best
that can be thought of him."

"He forgives his enemies, no doubt, heaping coals of fire on their
heads."

"You will witness it Morris. You will see him among them, and it will
make your heart glow. Poor creatures! I have heard some of them own to
him, from their sick beds, with dread and tears, that they broke his
windows, and slandered his name. Then you should see him smile when he
tells them that is all over now, and that they will not mistake him so
much again."

"No, never. He has shown himself now what he is."

"He sat up two nights with one poor boy who is now likely to get
through; and in the middle of the second night, the boy's father got up
from his sick bed in the next room, and came to my brother, to say that
he felt that ill luck would be upon them all, if he did not confess that
he put that very boy behind the hedge, with stones in his hand, to throw
at Edward, the day he was mobbed at the almshouses. He was deluded by
the neighbours, he said, into thinking that my brother meant ill by the
poor."

"They have learned to the contrary now, my dear. And what does Sir
William Hunter say of my master, now-a-days? Do you know?"

"There is very little heard of Sir William and Lady Hunter at present--
shut up at home as they are. But Dr Levitt, who loves to make peace,
you know, and tell what is pleasant, declares that Sir William Hunter
has certainly said that, after all, it does not so much signify which
way a man votes at an election, if he shows a kind heart to his
neighbours in troublesome times."

"Sir William Hunter has learned his lesson then, it seems, from this
affliction. I suppose he sees that one who does his duty as my master
does at a season like this, is just the one to vote according to his
conscience at an election. But, my dear, what sort of a heart have
these Hunters got, that they shut themselves up as you say?"

"They give their money freely: and that is all that we can expect from
them. If they have always been brought up and accustomed to fear
sickness, and danger, and death, we