The pride of this vain life is our besetting sin, and happy are they who are enabled to overcome it--may he be praised!--sit down." "I'm thankful to you, sir," said Darby, "oh, thin, Mr.M'Slime, it would be well for the world if every attorney in it was like you, sir--there would be little honesty goin' asthray, sir, if there was." "Sam Sharpe, my dear boy, if you have not that bill of costs finished--" "No sir." "A good boy, Sam--well, do not omit thirteen and four pence for two letters, which I ought to have sent--as a part of my moral, independently of my professional duty--to Widow Lenehan, having explained to her by word of mouth, that which I ought in conscience, to have written--but indeed my conscience often leads me to the--what should I say ?--the merciful side in these matters.

No, Darby, my friend, you cannot see into my heart, or you would not say so--I am frail, Darby, and sinful--I am not up to the standard, my friend, neither have I acted up to my privileges--the freedom of the gospel! is a blessed thing, provided we abuse it not'-- well, Sam, my good young friend--" "That was entered before, sir, under the head of instructions." "Very right--apparently very right, Sam, and reasonable for you to think so--but this was on a different occasion, although the same case." "Oh, I beg pardon, sir, I did not know that." "Sam, do not beg pardon--not of me--nor of any but One--go there, Sam, you require it; we all require it, at least I do abundantly.

Darby, my friend, it is a principle with me never to lose an opportunity of throwing in a word in season--but as the affairs of this life must be attended to--only in a secondary degree, I admit--I will, therefore, place you at the only true fountain where you can be properly refreshed.
Take this Bible, Darby, and it matters not where you open it, read and be filled." Now, as Darby, in consequence of his early attendance upon M'Clutchy, had been obliged to leave home that morning without his breakfast, it must be admitted that he was not just then in the best possible disposition to draw much edification from it.

After poring over it with a very sombre face for some time, he at length looked shrewdly at M'Slime closing one eye a little, as was his custom; "I beg pardon, sir," said he, "but if I'm not mistaken this book I believe is intended more for the sowl than the body." "For the body! truly, Darby, that last is a carnal thought, and I am sorry to hear, it from your lips:--the Bible is a spiritual book, my friend, and spiritually must it be received." "But, to a man like me, who hasn't had his breakfast to-day yet, how will it be sarviceable?
will reading it keep off hunger or fill my stomach ?" "Ah! Darby, my friend, that is gross talk--such views of divine truth are really a perversion of the gifts of heaven.

That book although it will not fill your stomach, as you grossly call it, actually will do it figuratively, which in point of fact is the same thing, or a greater--it will enable you to bear hunger as a dispensation, Darby, to which it is your duty as a Christian to submit.