It was an act of generosity; I have seen many of these acts, and always regretted--always regretted! "That shall be his inheritance," he said, as the papers burned; he did not mean that it should have proved so rich a one.

How rich, time will tell.' 'I beg your pardon a hundred thousand times, my dear sir, but it strikes me you have the impudence--in the circumstances, I may call it the indecency--to appear cast down ?' 'It is true,' said he: 'I am.

I am cast down.

I am literally cast down.
I feel myself quite helpless against your cousin.' 'Now, really!' I asked.

'Is this serious?
And is it perhaps the reason why you have gorged the poor devil with every species of insult?
and why you took such surprising pains to supply me with what I had so little need of--another enemy?
That you were helpless against them?
"Here is my last missile," say you; "my ammunition is quite exhausted: just wait till I get the last in--it will irritate, it cannot hurt him.