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on the stage to play tlie role of companions in our 

 hours of ease, and ministering angels at appropriate 

 times and seasons. 



Then crossing over from Charles Street, I see that 

 kindly and popular peer, Lord Rowton, whose honours, 

 so well deserved and gracefully bestowed, not even the 

 most envious of his opponents can begrudge, for it 

 may be said with truth, " Nothing becomes him ill 

 that he would well." Then passes Lord Cork, whose 

 reappointment as Master of the Buckhounds will be 

 hailed with delight by many who hunt with the 

 " Queen's ; " and though his ways political, I mean 

 are not my ways, yet I will willingly follow so genial 

 a leader when he goes a rattler across a good line of 

 country at the tail of the Royal Hounds. Then next 

 passes a thoroughly well-appointed brougham, drawn 

 by a -pair of stylish, high- stepping horses, driven by 

 the stateliest of coachmen, who is conveying one of the 

 house of Rothschild to the City, not on pleasure, but on 

 business bent. When I see that grave retainer going 

 on his daily journey eastward, I always imagine that 

 during the interval between his arrival and departure 

 he fills some high fiduciary post in that wonderful 

 establishment, so thoroughly business-like and reliable 

 does he look. By-the-way, he once did me a service 

 unwittingly, for, having occasion to meet ' ( a party in 

 the City " in reference to a monetary arrangement a 

 bill at three months, if my memory serves me I 

 passed down St. Swithin's Lane when this equipage 

 was standing at the corner of New Court, and being 

 recognised by the staid charioteer with a respectful 

 touch of his hat, my capitalist, who up to this time 

 had appeared somewhat indisposed to entertain my 



