Without any originality or magnanimity in his composition, he has spent twenty years of his life in mere buying and selling, and as he has generally contrived to do business at a profit, he has realized a considerable fortune.

What he is going to do with the money, he does not seem able to say: his ideas do not go beyond retail trade, his mind having been so long closed to all other impressions that it appears incapable of thought or reflection on any subject besides.

Pascal says, "L'homme est visiblement fait pour penser.

C'est toute sa dignite et tout-son merite;" but to Mr.Ruby the phrase seems altogether inapplicable..