But why go on?
Let us call it the small but well-selected library of a distressed gentleman, whose cultivated mind is reflected in the marginal notes with which these volumes abound.

Will any gentleman say, "L10 for the lot"?
Why the very criticisms are worth--I mean to a man of literary tastes--five times the amount.

No offer at L10?
Who is it that says "five"?
I trust my ears have deceived me.
You repeat the insulting proposal?
Well, sir, on your own head be it! Mr.
Atlee's library--or the Atlee collection is better--was yesterday disposed of to a well-known collector of rare books, and, if we are rightly informed, for a mere fraction of its value.

Never mind, sir, I bear you no ill-will! I was irritable, and to show you my honest animus in the matter, I beg to present you in addition with this, a handsomely-bound and gilt copy of a sermon by the Reverend Isaac Atlee, on the opening of the new meeting-house in Coleraine--a discourse that cost my father some sleepless nights, though I have heard the effect on the congregation was dissimilar.
'The pictures are few.

Cardinal Cullen, I believe, is Kearney's; at all events, he is the worse for being made a target for pistol firing, and the archiepiscopal nose has been sorely damaged.