If they give him nothing else in the days of his difficulty, he may be sure of their pity, and that he is held up as an example to his young cousins to avoid.

If he loses his money they call him poor fellow, and point morals out of him.

If he falls among thieves, the respectable Pharisees of his race turn their heads aside and leave him penniless and bleeding.

They clap him on the back kindly enough when he returns, after shipwreck, with money in his pocket.

How naturally Joseph's brothers made salaams to him, and admired him, and did him honour, when they found the poor outcast a prime minister, and worth ever so much money! Surely human nature is not much altered since the days of those primeval Jews.
We would not thrust brother Joseph down a well and sell him bodily, but--but if he has scrambled out of a well of his own digging, and got out of his early bondage into renown and credit, at least we applaud him and respect him, and are proud of Joseph as a member of the family.
Little Clive was the innocent and lucky object upon whom the increasing affection of the Newcomes for their Indian brother was exhibited.