Yet, seriously, I should think that travel must be like life, and that good persons must be always agreeable companions to each other." "Good persons, my Gertrude!" answered Vane, with a smile.

"Alas! I fear the good weary each other quite as much as the bad.

What say you, Trevylyan,--would Virtue be a pleasant companion from Paris to Petersburg?
Ah, I see you intend to be on Gertrude's side of the question.

Well now, if I tell you a story, since stories are so much the fashion with you, in which you shall find that the Virtues themselves actually made the experiment of a tour, will you promise to attend to the moral ?" "Oh, dear father, anything for a story," cried Gertrude; "especially from you, who have not told us one all the way.

Come, listen, Albert; nay, listen to your new rival." And, pleased to see the vivacity of the invalid, Vane began as follows:-- THE TOUR OF THE VIRTUES: A PHILOSOPHER'S TALE.
ONCE upon a time, several of the Virtues, weary of living forever with the Bishop of Norwich, resolved to make a little excursion; accordingly, though they knew everything on earth was very ill prepared to receive them, they thought they might safely venture on a tour from Westminster Bridge to Richmond.