An exquisite eye! A nice discrimination! A--' 'Now, Tommy, to how many people have you said that ?' Sir George retorted, dropping into a chair, and coolly staring about him.

'But, there, have done, and tell me about yourself.

Who is the last sprig of nobility you have been training in the way it should grow ?' 'The last pupil who honoured me,' the Reverend Frederick answered, 'as you are so kind as to ask after my poor concerns, Sir George, was my Lord E----'s son.

We went to Paris, Marseilles, Genoa, Florence; visited the mighty monuments of Rome, and came home by way of Venice, Milan, and Turin.

I treasure the copy of Tintoretto which you see there, and these bronzes, as memorials of my lord's munificence.