As the difference was so PATENT, as the French express it, I shall furnish the substance of what passed.
"This is a serious and a most alarming movement, Mr.Goldencalf," observed Sir Joseph, "and calls for union and cordiality among the holders of property.

Should these damnable opinions get fairly abroad among the people, what would become of us?
I ask, Mr.Goldencalf, what would become of us ?" "I agree with you, Sir Joseph, it is very alarming!--frightfully alarming!" "We shall have agrarian laws, sir.

Your money, sir, and mine--our hard earnings--will become the prey of political robbers, and our children will be beggared to satisfy the envious longings of some pitiful scoundrel without a six-pence!" "'Tis a sad state of things, Sir Joseph; and government is very culpable that it don't raise at least ten new regiments." "The worst of it is, good Mr.Goldencalf, that there are some jack-a-napeses of the aristocracy who lead the rascals on and lend them the sanction of their names.

It is a great mistake, sir, that we give so much importance to birth in this island, by which means proud beggars set unwashed blackguards in motion, and the substantial subjects are the sufferers.

Property, sir, is in danger, and property is the only true basis of society." "I am sure, Sir Joseph, I never could see the smallest use in birth." "It is of no use but to beget pensioners, Mr.Goldencalf.Now with property it is a different thing--money is the parent of money, and by money a state becomes powerful and prosperous.