CHAPTER LVIII.
THE HEALTH OF THE JUNIOR PARTNER.
"I call for a bumper!" said Lawrence Newt, when the fruit was placed upon the table.
The glasses were filled, and the host glanced around his table.

He did not rise, but he said: "Ladies and gentlemen, commercial honesty is not impossible, but it is rare.

I do not say that merchants are worse than other people; I only say that their temptations are as great, and that an honest man--a man perfectly honest every how and every where--is a wonder.

Whatever an honest man does is a benefit to all the rest of us.

If he become a lawyer, justice is more secure; if a doctor, quackery is in danger; if a clergyman, the devil trembles; if a shoemaker, we don't wear rotten leather; if a merchant, we get thirty-six inches to the yard.