And yet--I should like to be tried!" "See, mother!" he broke out again,--"see what a life it is, getting and spending, living handsomely and doing the proper thing towards society, and all that,--rubbing through the world in the old hereditary way; though I needn't growl at it, for I enjoy it enough, and find it a pleasant enough way, Heaven knows.

Lazy idler! enjoying the sunshine with the rest.

Heigh-ho!" "You have your profession, Willie.

There's work there, and opportunity sufficient to help others and do for yourself." "Ay, and I'll _do_ it! But there is so much that is poor and mean, and base and tricky, in it all,--so much to disgust and tire one,--all the time, day after day, for years.

Now if it were only a huge giant that stands in your way, you could out rapier and have at him at once, and there an end,--laid out or triumphant.