When Mr.B.
had wiped his eyes and recovered himself, he turned round; and oh, how my heart thumped as he looked me full in the face! How it was relieved, though, when he shouted out in a thundering voice-- "Mr.ROBERT SWINNEY!" "Sir to you," says Swinney, as cool as possible, and some of the chaps began to titter.
"Mr.SWINNEY!" roared Brough, in a voice still bigger than before, "when you came into this office--this family, sir, for such it is, as I am proud to say--you found three-and-twenty as pious and well-regulated young men as ever laboured together--as ever had confided to them the wealth of this mighty capital and famous empire.

You found, sir, sobriety, regularity, and decorum; no profane songs were uttered in this place sacred to--to business; no slanders were whispered against the heads of the establishment--but over them I pass: I can afford, sir, to pass them by--no worldly conversation or foul jesting disturbed the attention of these gentlemen, or desecrated the peaceful scene of their labours.

You found Christians and gentlemen, sir!" "I paid for my place like the rest," said Swinney.

"Didn't my governor take sha- ?" "Silence, sir! Your worthy father did take shares in this establishment, which will yield him one day an immense profit.

He _did_ take shares, sir, or you never would have been here.