Well, I told him I had three thousand pounds in the Funds, and a good profession; and then I said I had youth, health, and love, boundless love, the love that can do, or suffer, the love that can conquer the world." "Dear Christopher! And what COULD he say to all that ?" "He ignored it entirely.

There! I'll give you his very words.

He said, 'In that case, Dr.Staines, the simple question is, what does your profession bring you in per annum ?'" "Oh! There! I always hated arithmetic, and now I abominate it." "Then I was obliged to confess I had scarcely received a hundred pounds in fees this year; but I told him the reason; this is such a small district, and all the ground occupied.

London, I said, was my sphere." "And so it is," said Rosa, eagerly; for this jumped with her own little designs.

"Genius is wasted in the country.