Then I told him what I had learned in the Carolinas and at the outland farms.

"You yourself told me it was hopeless to look for a guinea from the Council.

I was but carrying out your desires.

Can you blame me if I've toiled for the public weal and neglected my own fortunes ?" He was scarcely appeased.

"You're a damnable kind of busybody, sir, the breed of fellow that plunges states into revolutions.