to partake without partaking of the expense. He was soon addressed
by persons of the very first rank and fashion, and was once seen
walking side by side with a peer.

But yet, in the midst of this powerful occasion for rejoicing,
Henry, whose heart was particularly affectionate, had one grief
which eclipsed all the happiness of his new life;--his brother
William could NOT play on the fiddle! consequently, his brother
William, with whom he had shared so much ill, could not share in his
good fortune.

One evening, Henry, coming home from a dinner and concert at the
Crown and Anchor found William, in a very gloomy and peevish humour,
poring over the orations of Cicero. Henry asked him several times
"how he did," and similar questions, marks of his kind disposition
towards his beloved brother: but all his endeavours, he perceived,
could not soothe or soften the sullen mind of William. At length,
taking from his pocket a handful of almonds, and some delicious
fruit (which he had purloined from the plenteous table, where his
brother's wants had never been absent from his thoughts), and laying
them down before him, he exclaimed, with a benevolent smile, "Do,
William, let me teach you to play upon the violin."

William, full of the great orator whom he was then studying, and
still more alive to the impossibility that HIS ear, attuned only to
sense, could ever descend from that elevation, to learn mere sounds-
-William caught up the tempting presents which Henry had ventured
his reputation to obtain for him, and threw them all indignantly at
the donor's head.