nt to cry."

"Come, come, Sir, the Baronet's a good man and no tyrant; though he may
have his fancies and his faults, like the rest of us: but we most of us
like him pretty well, tenants and all: and, as to his niece--Miss
Genevieve, I believe there's not many between this and the Castle but
would go through fire and water for her."

"Sir Morgan Walladmor," said Alderman Gravesand, "is a wise man; and,
in these times of change and light-mindedness, he sticks up for ancient
customs. It's a pity but there were more such."

"Aye and he's a clever man," added the landlord, "and knows how to tack
with the wind: for, let who would be in or out of the ministry, he has
still been the king's lieutenant for these two counties of Carnarvon
and Merioneth ever since I can think on."

"There you're wrong, landlord,"--replied the Alderman: "Sir Morgan
never shifts or tacks for any body: he's a staunch Whig like all his
ancestors from 1688; and, though he doesn't go up to Parliament now so
often as he did in his younger days, yet there has never been a Tory
administration but Sir Morgan Walladmor has opposed it so far as he
thought honorable; that is to say, he has opposed it on the fine old
Whig principles of the Russels--the Cavendishes--and the Spencers."

"And why doesn't he go up to Parliament, I'd be glad to know?" said
Dulberry: "What the d---l does he stay here for, like a ruminating
beast chewing the cud of his youthful patriotism? Because he has got
some pleasant sinecure for himself, I suppose--and some comfortable
places for his sons, his grandsons, his nephews, and his cousins."

"I'll tell you, Mr. Dulberry, why he doesn't go up to Parliament," said
Alderman Gravesand; "not, as _you_ say, out of consideration for his
sons, grandsons, nephews, and cousins; for he happens to have neither
son, grandson, nephew, nor cousin:--not, as _you_ say, to preserve his
own sinecures; for he has never had a shilling for his services; nor
any reward at all from the state, except indeed what a man like Sir
Morgan thinks the greatest of all rewards--the thanks of Parliament,
and the approbation of his Sovereign: not, as _you_ say, to take
his ease and pleasure, for he has troubles enough of his own to
keep him waking at Walladmor House as much as if he were in St.
James's-square:--these are _not_ his reasons, Mr. Dulberry. But now
I'll tell you what _is_:--There are just now in London and elsewhere a
set of presumptuous--illiterate-