nd was grasping it with an iron force, which
it could not support: it snapped beneath his hand like a hazel stick.
This accident, slight as it was, recalled him to himself. He apologized
with apparent self-possession for his disorder; and, after a few words
of fervent and affectionate farewell on my part, I left him to the
solitude which I knew he desired.

CHAPTER LVII.

While I seemed only intent upon pleasure, I locked in my heart the
consciousness and vanity of power; in the levity of the lip, I disguised
the knowledge and the workings of the brain; and I looked, as with a
gifted eye, upon the mysteries of the hidden depths, while I seemed
to float an idler with the herd only upon the surface of the stream.
--Falkland.

As I walked home, revolving the scene I had witnessed, the words of
Tyrrell came into my recollection--viz. that the cause of Glanville's
dislike to him had arisen in Tyrrell's greater success in some youthful
liaison. In this account I could not see much probability. In the first
place, the cause was not sufficient to produce such an effect; and,
in the second, there was little likelihood that the young and rich
Glanville, possessed of the most various accomplishments, and the most
remarkable personal beauty, should be supplanted by a needy spendthrift
(as Tyrrell at that time was), of coarse manners, and unpolished mind;
with a person not, indeed, unprepossessing, but somewhat touched by
time, and never more comparable to Glanville's than that of the Satyr to
Hyperion.

While I was meditating over a mystery which excited my curiosity more
powerfully than anything, not relating to himself, ought ever to occupy
the attention of a wise man, I was accosted by Vincent: the difference
in our politics had of late much dissevered us, and when he took my
arm, and drew me up Bond-street, I was somewhat surprised at his
condescension.

"Listen to me, Pelham," he said; "once more I offer you a settlement
in our colony. There will be great changes soon: trust me, so radical
a party as that you have adopted can never come in: our's, on the
contrary, is no less moderate than liberal. This is the last time of
asking; for I know you will soon have exposed your opinions in public
more openly than you have yet done, and then it will be too late. At
present I hold, with Hudibras, and the ancients, that it is--

"'More honourable far, servare Civem than slay an adversary.'"

"Alas, Vincent," said I, "I a