"The subject of dress and the associations connected with it have all been effaced from my mind and feelings for years.

So long as we are capable of looking to our dress, there is always a sense of honor and self-respect left.

Dress I never think of, unless as a mere animal protection against the elements." "Well, then," observed the other, surveying this unfortunate wretch with compassion, "whether all perception of honor and self-respect is lost in you I care not.

Here are five pounds for you; that is to say--and pray understand me--I commit them absolutely to your own keeping--your own honor, your self-respect, or by whatever name you are pleased to call it.

Purchase plain clothes, get better linen, a hat and shoes: when this is done, if you have strength of mind and resolution of character to do it, come to me at the head inn, where I stop, and I will only ask you, in return, to tell me anything you know or have heard about such subjects as may chance to occur to me at the moment." On receiving the money, the poor fellow fastened his eyes on it with such an expression of amazement as defies description.