But this is not the strain wherewith to greet the friend newly arrived on our shores.

How it rejoices me to behold you in old England.'" And so the satirist goes on with Mr.Honeyman the clergyman.

Mr.Honeyman the clergyman has been already mentioned, in that extract made in our first chapter from _Lovel the Widower_.

It was he who assisted another friend, "with his wheedling tongue," in inducing Thackeray to purchase that "neat little literary paper,"-- called then _The Museum_, but which was in truth _The National Standard_.

In describing Barnes Newcome, the colonel's relative, Thackeray in the same scene attacks the sharpness of the young men of business of the present day.