5 8 LIFE OF MYTTOiV. 



With a perfect contempt for the splendour of 

 cold-hearted opulence, Mr. Mytton lived very mucli 

 like a gentleman at Halston, where everything was 

 in keeping with his fortune and station in life. 

 There was no unnecessary display — two men-ser- 

 vants out of livery, and two in livery, being the full 

 complement at the dinner-table, nor did he indulge in 

 the luxury of a man-cook. Although himself a per- 

 fect stranger to the science of economy, his establish- 

 ment was managed with considerable regularity ; and 

 notwithstanding the consumption of good things in 

 the servants' hall, for the number of stable servants 

 was great, it was not Halston that ruined him. It 

 was that " largeness of heart, even as the sand that 

 is on the sea shore," which Solomon possessed, but 

 unaccompanied by his means as well as by his wis- 

 dom, which ruined Mr. Mytton ; added to a lofty 

 pride which disdained the littleness ot prudence, and 

 a sort of destroying spirit that appeared to run 

 a-muck at Fortune. By a rough computation, and a 

 knowledge of the property he sold, I should set down 

 the sum total expended at very little less than half 

 a million sterling within the last fifteen years of his 

 life ! ! 



But how would this expenditure be accounted for 



