m
inclined to think there must be a mistake."

The unfortunate Marquis groaned deeply as he walked away to the
august chamber of the Lords.

These and such like are the troubles that sit heavy on a man's heart.
If search for bread, and meat, and raiment, be set aside, then,
beyond that, our happiness or misery here depends chiefly on success
or failure in small things. Though a man when he turns into bed may
be sure that he has unlimited thousands at his command, though
all society be open to him, though he know himself to be esteemed
handsome, clever, and fashionable, even though his digestion be good,
and he have no doctor to deny him tobacco, champagne, or made dishes,
still, if he be conscious of failure there where he has striven to
succeed, even though it be in the humbling of an already humble
adversary, he will stretch, and roll, and pine,--a wretched being.
How happy is he who can get his fretting done for him by deputy!

Lord St. George wrote to the parson a few days after his interview
with his father. He and Lord Trowbridge occupied the same house in
London, and always met at breakfast; but nothing further was said
between them during the remaining days in town upon the subject. Lord
St. George wrote to the parson, and his father had left London for
Turnover before Mr. Fenwick's answer was received.

MY DEAR SIR,--(Lord St. George had said,)--My father
has put into my hands your letter about the dissenting
chapel at Bullhampton. It seems to me, that he has made a
mistake, and that you are very angry. Couldn't we arrange
this little matter without fighting? There is not a
landlord in England more desirous of doing good to his
tenants than my father; and I am quite willing to believe
that there is not an incumbent in England more desirous of
doing good to his parishioners than you. I leave London
for Wiltshire on Saturday the 11th. If you will meet me I
will drive over to Bullhampton on Monday the 13th.

Yours truly,

ST. GEORGE.

No doubt you'll agree with me in thinking that internecine
fighting in a parish between the landlord and the
clergyman cannot be for the good of the people.

Thus it was that Lord St. George began to throw his oil upon the
waters.

It may be a doubt whether it should be ascribed to Mr. Fenwick as a
weakness or a strength that, though he was very susceptible of anger,
and though he could maintain his anger at glowing he