that of one whose HOPES are not set where the worldling places
them. Let him, and such as he, take thought for the morrow and
chaffer about settlements. I do not regret the gold to which you
so delicately allude. I sorrow only for the bloom that has been
brushed from the soaring pinions of a pure and disinterested
affection. Sunt lacrymae rerum, and the handkerchief in which I
bury my face is dank with them.

Nor is this disappointment my only CROSS. The carrion-birds of
commerce have marked down the stricken deer from their eyries in
Bond Street and Jermyn Street. To know how Solomons has behaved,
and the BLACK colours in which Moss (of Wardour Street) has shown
himself, is to receive a new light on the character of a People
chosen under a very different Dispensation! Detainers flock in,
like ravens to a feast. At this moment I have endured the
humiliation of meeting a sneering child of this world--Mr. Arthur
Pendennis--the emissary of one {18} to whom I gave in other days
the sweetest blossom in the garden of my affections--my sister--of
one who has, indeed, behaved like a brother--IN LAW! My word
distrusted, my statements received with a chilling scepticism by
this NABOB Newcome, I am urged to make some "composition" with my
creditors. The world is very censorious, the ear of a Bishop is
easily won; who knows how those who have ENVIED talents not misused
may turn my circumstances to my disadvantage? You will see that,
far from aiding another, I am rather obliged to seek succour
myself. But that saying about the sparrows abides with me to my
comfort. Could aught be done, think you, with a bill backed by our
joint names? On July 12 my pew-rents will come in. I swear to you
that they HAVE NOT BEEN ANTICIPATED. Yours afflictedly,