eeable company, to your tiresome law-suits, I hate it.

_Counsellor._ Drave hinted an intention of making a declaration.

_Lewis_ [stretching in his chair and yawning]. Well; to what effect?

_Counsellor._ That he could not pay instantly--by degrees only; and
asked for delay.

_Lewis_ [as before]. Go on, go on.

_Counsellor._ You understand. Your claims must be enforced; seals
therefore were put on.

_Lewis_ [hastily rising]. How? what do you say? Seals put on? No, I
disapprove that!

_Counsellor._ Why? it was unavoidable! quite so, I assure you.

_Lewis_ [with warmth]. But he will be entirely ruined.

_Counsellor_ [smiling]. Oh, no, depend upon it. They have made pretty
good use of your property at Rose's--They have embezzled enough--every
body knows it, and we have proofs.

_Lewis._ Then, indeed, a slight correction will not hurt this prating
moralist.

_Counsellor._ By this means too, I hope to pave the way for my love to
Augusta.

_Lewis._ How so?

_Counsellor._ Why, what will she do now? Reduced to poverty, she must
thank me for my protection. I will procure her a situation with my aunt
at Bonn.

_Lewis._ For shame!

_Counsellor._ Why so? she is clever--understands music--Depend upon it
she will be comfortable. She shall keep the old lady company, and read
or sing to her.

_Lewis._ What a mean fellow you are!

_Counsellor._ Is not that better than an abandoned life?

_Lewis._ How? Could I ever drive her to that?

_Counsellor._ You are like a baby; if you have not playthings, you cry.

_Lewis._ But dam'me, 'tis downright baseness!

_Counsellor_ [laughing]. Fantastical nonsense! Things have different
sides: that which in common life, you call honesty, is bungler's work
in politics.

_Lewis_ [looking sharply at him]. So!

_Counsellor._ Apropos--the accounts of Drave's guardianship are
brought; there we shall discover his impositions.

_Lewis._ I don't mind him; but Augusta, and her mother----No, that
shall not be.

Enter the Chancellor's Clerk.

_Clerk._ Gentlemen, there is a person waiting for My Lord; guess who?

_Lewis._ I don't care.

_Clerk._ One I should never have expected to see here.

_Counsellor._ Who is it?

_Clerk_ [to Lewis]. Your brother.

_Lewis._ My brother?

_Counsellor._ God bless me! Mr. Philip.

_Clerk_ [to the Counsellor]. Will you ask My Lord, if agreeable--

_Counsellor._ Yes, yes, immediately [going]. Astonishing! Mr. Philip
he