ut him. He takes things easily, and allows other people to do the
same."

"Exactly."

"But this was not exactly what you wanted. If he had treated you as
though a father and son were necessarily of a different order of
beings, had he been a little less familiar, a little colder, perhaps
a thought more stern and forbidding in his parental way of pushing
the bottle to you, you would have liked him better?"

"No, not have liked him better; I might perhaps have thought it more
natural."

"Just so; you went to look for a papa with a boy's feelings, and the
papa, who had not been looking for you at all, took you for a man as
you are when he found you."

"I am sure of this at any rate, that he was delighted to see me."

"I am sure he was, and proud of you when he did see you. I never
supposed but that the gallant colonel had some feelings in his
bowels. Have you made any arrangements with him about money?"

"No--none."

"Said not a word about so mundane a subject?"

"I don't say that; it is only natural that we should have said
something. But as to income, he fights his battle, and I fight mine."

"He should now have a large income from his profession."

"And large expenses. I suppose there is no dearer place in Europe
than Constantinople."

"All places are dear to an Englishman exactly in comparison as he
knows, or does not know, the ways of the place. A Turk, I have no
doubt, could live there in a very genteel sort of manner on what you
would consider a moderate pittance."

"I suppose he could."

"And Sir Lionel by this time should be a Turk in Turkey, a Greek in
Greece, or a Persian in Bagdad."

"Perhaps he is. But I was not. I know I shall be very fairly cleared
out by the time I get to London; and yet I had expected to have three
hundred pounds untouched there."

"Such expectations always fall to the ground--always. Every quarter
I allow myself exactly what I shall want, and then I double it for
emergencies."

"You are a lucky fellow to have the power to do so."

"Yes, but then I put my quarterly wants at a _very_ low figure; a
figure that would be quite unsuitable--quite unintelligible to the
nephew of a Croesus."

"The nephew of a Croesus will have to put his quarterly wants at
something about fifty pounds, as far as I can see."

"My dear fellow, when I observe that water bubbles up from a certain
spot every winter and every spring, and occasionally in the warm
weather too, I never think that