CHAPTER XIX.
MATERIAL INTERESTS.
"For my part," said a great fat Neapolitan, "I don't care the value of a bit of orange-peel for politics.

I am willing to believe we've got a bad government, because all the world says we have, and because our King never dare show himself in public.

All I can say is, that my grandfather made 20,000 ducats as a manufacturer; that my father doubled his capital in trade; and that I bought an estate which, in my tenants' hands, pays me six per cent.

for the investment.

I eat four meals a day, I'm in vigorous health, and I weigh fourteen stone.