he end of two months the situation of affairs was as follows:

Grace Carden received a visit every week from Henry, and met him now and
then at other houses: she recovered her health and spirits, and,
being of a patient sex, was quite contented, and even happy. Frederick
Coventry visited her often, and she received his visits quite
graciously, now that the man she loved was no longer driven from her.
She even pitied him, and was kind to him and had misgivings that she
had used him ill. This feeling he fostered, by a tender, dejected, and
inoffensive manner. Boiling with rage inside, this consummate actor
had the art to feign resignation; whereas, in reality, he was secretly
watching for an opportunity to injure his rival. But no such opportunity
came.

Little, in humble imitation of his sovereign, had employed a go-between
to employ a go-between, to deal with the State go-betweens, and
deputy-go-betweens, that hampered the purchase--the word "grant" is out
of place, bleeding is no boon--of a patent from the crown, and by
this means he had done, in sixty days, what a true inventor will do in
twenty-four hours, whenever the various metallic ages shall be succeeded
by the age of reason; he had secured his two saw-grinding inventions, by
patent, in Great Britain, the Canadas, and the United States of America.
He had another invention perfected; it was for forging axes and
hatchets by machinery: but this he did not patent: he hoped to find his
remuneration in the prior use of it for a few months. Mere priority is
sometimes a great advantage in this class of invention, and there are no
fees to pay for it nor deputy-lieutenant-vice-go-betweens' antechambers
for genius to cool its heels and heart in.

But one thing soon became evident. He could not work his inventions
without a much larger capital.

Dr. Amboyne and he put their heads together over this difficulty, and
the doctor advised him in a more erudite style than usual.

"True invention," said he, "whether literary or mechanical, is the
highest and hardest effort of the mind. It is an operation so absorbing
that it often weakens those pettier talents which make what we call the
clever man. Therefore the inventor should ally himself with some person
of talent and energy, but no invention. Thus supported, he can have his
fits of abstraction, his headaches, his heartaches, his exultations, his
depressions, and no harm done; his dogged associate will plow steadily
on all