The picture, as the painter said, was not far advanced, the Pharaoh was merely in outline; my eye was, of course, attracted by the finished figure, or rather what the painter had called the finished figure; but, as I gazed upon it, it appeared to me that there was something defective--something unsatisfactory in the figure.

I concluded, however, that the painter, notwithstanding what he had said, had omitted to give it the finishing touch.

'I intend this to be my best picture,' said the painter; 'what I want now is a face for Pharaoh; I have long been meditating on a face for Pharaoh.' Here, chancing to cast his eye upon my countenance, of whom he had scarcely taken any manner of notice, he remained with his mouth open for some time, 'Who is this ?' said he at last.

'Oh, this is my brother, I forgot to introduce him----.' We wish that the acquaintance had extended further, but this was not to be.

Borrow was soon to commence the wanderings which were to give him much unsatisfactory fame, and the pair never met again.