It is that of accommodating one's-self to the manners of any land (however humble) in which our lot may be cast.

Now, in France, for instance, every one goes to a cafe for his meals; in America, to what is called a "two-bit house"; in England the people resort to such an institution as the present for refreshment.

With sandwiches, tea, and an occasional glass of bitter beer, a man can live luxuriously in London for fourteen pounds twelve shillings per annum.' 'Yes, I know,' returned Michael, 'but that's not including clothes, washing, or boots.

The whole thing, with cigars and occasional sprees, costs me over seven hundred a year.' But this was Michael's last interruption.

He listened in good-humoured silence to the remainder of his uncle's lecture, which speedily branched to political reform, thence to the theory of the weather-glass, with an illustrative account of a bora in the Adriatic; thence again to the best manner of teaching arithmetic to the deaf-and-dumb; and with that, the sandwich being then no more, explicuit valde feliciter.