all, the young man had married a young lady without fortune; the uncle
only heard of this marriage on arriving in England. The spendthrift was
hiding from his creditors in the house of his father-in-law, in one of the
western counties. Faber there sought him; and on becoming acquainted
with his wife, grew reconciled to the marriage, and formed hopes of his
nephew's future redemption. He spoke, indeed, of the young wife with
great affection. She was good and sensible; willing and anxious to
encounter any privation by which her husband might reprieve the effects
of his folly. "So," said Faber, "on consultation with this excellent
creature--for my poor nephew is so broken down by repentance, that others
must think for him how to exalt repentance into reform--my plans were
determined. I shall remove my prodigal from all scenes of temptation. He
has youth, strength, plenty of energy, hitherto misdirected. I shall take
him from the Old World into the New. I have decided on Australia. The
fortune still left to me, small here, will be ample capital there. It is
not enough to maintain us separately, so we must all live together.
Besides, I feel that, though I have neither the strength or the experience
which could best serve a young settler on a strange soil, still, under my
eye, my poor boy will be at once more prudent and more persevering. We
sail next week."

Faber spoke so cheerfully that I knew not how to express compassion; yet,
at his age, after a career of such prolonged and distinguished labour, to
resign the ease and comforts of the civilized state for the hardships and
rudeness of an infant colony, seemed to me a dreary prospect; and, as
delicately, as tenderly as I could to one whom I loved and honoured as a
father, I placed at his disposal the fortune which, in great part, I owed
to him,--pressing him at least to take from it enough to secure to
himself, in his own country, a home suited to his years and worthy of his
station. He rejected all my offers, however earnestly urged on him, with