I think he has certainly not omitted to sound the alarm sufficiently loud during the approach of this great ordeal to which we are exposed." "And in addition to everything else, I am in arrears to you, Temple," he added; "and now I have no means of paying you." Temple was silent, for at that moment the necessities of his family pressed with peculiar severity upon himself--and he was not exactly prepared for such an intimation.

The portion of salary then coming to him was, in truth, his sole dependence at that peculiar crisis, and this failing him, he knew not on what hand or in what direction to turn.
After musing for some time, he at length replied, "If you have it not, Dr.Turbot, or cannot procure it, of course it is idle for me to expect it--although I will not deny, that in the present circumstances of my family, it would have come to us with very peculiar and seasonable relief." "But I have not a pound," replied the doctor; "so far from that, I am pretty deeply in debt--for I need hardly say, that for years I have been balancing my affairs--paying off debts to-day, and contracting other to-morrow--always dipped, but and rather deeply, too, as I said." He again got to his legs, when the pursuit of the latter part of his person after the rest once more took place, and in this odd way he traversed the room in a state of extreme tribulation.
"What is to be done ?" he asked--"surely the government cannot abandon us ?--cannot allow us to perish utterly, which we must do, if left to the mercy of our enemies?
No, certainly it cannot desert us in such a strait as this, unless it wishes to surrender the established church to the dark plots and designing ambition of popery.

No, no--it cannot--it must not--it dares not.

Some vigorous measure for our relief must be taken, and that speedily;--let us not be too much dejected, then--our sufferings will be short--and as for myself, I am willing to make any reasonable sacrifice, provided I am not called upon--at these years--fifty-eight--to give up my usual little luxuries.

Purcel, I want you to take a turn in the garden.