Such a condition of character is the natural consequence of such a position.

There is, probably, no man who becomes naturally so hard in regard to money as he who is bound to live among rich men, who is not rich himself, and who is yet honest.
The weight of the work of life in these circumstances is so crushing, requires such continued thought, and makes itself so continually felt, that the mind of the sufferer is never free from the contamination of sixpences.

Of such a one it is not fair to judge as of other men with similar incomes.

Lord Fawn had declared to his future bride that he had half five thousand a year to spend,--or the half, rather, of such actual income as might be got in from an estate presumed to give five thousand a year,--and it may be said that an unmarried gentleman ought not to be poor with such an income.

But Lord Fawn unfortunately was a lord, unfortunately was a landlord, unfortunately was an Irish landlord.