her there was anything more to be seen. He did not care, he said,
about going upstairs into the gallery; and when George suggested
that he should descend into the Armenian chapel, he observed that it
appeared to be very dark and very crowded. He looked at the Turkish
janitors without dismay, and could not at all understand why George
should not approve of them.

He was equally cold and equally complaisant on the Mount of Olives.
He would willingly have avoided the ascent could he have done so
without displeasing his son; but George made a point of it. A donkey
was therefore got for him, and he rode up.

"Ah! yes," said he, "a very clear view of the city; oh, that was
Solomon's temple, was it? And now they have a mosque there, have
they? Ah! perhaps the Brahmins will have a turn at it before the
world is done. It's a barren sort of hill after all, is it not?"

And then George tried very much in vain to make his father understand
why he wished to go into the church.

"By-the-by," said Sir Lionel--they were then sitting exactly on the
spot where George had placed himself before, when he made that grand
resolve to give up everything belonging to this world for the sake
of being one of Christ's shepherds--"by-the-by, George, for heaven's
sake don't throw your uncle over in choosing a profession. I
certainly should be sorry to see you become an attorney."

"I have never thought of it for a moment," said George.

"Because, with your abilities, and at any rate with your chance of
money, I think you would be very much thrown away; but, considering
his circumstances and yours, were I you, I would really submit almost
to anything."

"I will not at any rate submit to that," said George, not very well
able to reconcile his father's tone to the spot on which they were
sitting.

"Well, it's your own affair, my boy. I have no right to interfere,
and shall not attempt to do so; but of course I must be anxious. If
you did go into the church, I suppose he'd buy a living for you?"

"Certainly not; I should take a college living."

"At your age any that you could get would be very small. Ah, George!
if I could only put an old head upon young shoulders, what a hand of
cards you would have to play! That old man could leave you half a
million of money!"

This was certainly not the object with which the son had ascended the
mount, and he did not use much eloquence to induce his father to
remain long in the place. Sir Lionel got ag