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dingy old lean-to, with its heavy timbers and its tiny 

 discoloured panes, to the grand conservatory, with its 

 spacious dome, transepts, aisles, broad walks, and 

 sparkling fountain ; of these there is no time to tell. 

 Less need, inasmuch as he, whom I now introduce to 

 you, derives not his happiness from his vast material, 

 his unlimited privileges and rare resources, but from 

 his own good and grateful heart, which recognizes 

 God's love and power in all the glorious works around 

 him, and sings 



" Non nobis, Domine, set! Nomini tuo," 



for all the sweetnesses and joys of life. 



Give the worthy gentleman, for gentleman he is in 

 mind and mien, one of those long clean Broseley 

 pipes. " My dear young Marquis," he remarks, as 

 he fills and lights it, and tbe pretty little rings of 

 silvery smoke rise upwards from the ample bowl 

 " my dear young Marquis brought me years ago, from 

 Germany, a meerschaum beautifully carved, in which 

 you might almost boil an egg ; and my lord in the 

 Guards, and my lord at Oxford make me presents 

 from time to time of such cigars as I don't suppose 

 are to be bought for money ; but my meerschaum goes 

 out when I begin to talk, unless I suck at its amber 

 mouthpiece like a greedy child at a piece of barle) r - 

 sugar ; and the fire of those huge regalias draws so 

 near to my nose, that I grow quite afraid of it ; and, in 

 short, I never enjoy tobacco so much as when it comes 

 to my lips, coolly yet quickly, through these long 

 cleanly tubes, and waits for me patiently, as now, 

 through my tedious old man's sentences." 



