1 80 LIFE OF MYTTON. 



such another scene. His pecuniary affairs appeared 

 not to g^ive him a moment's uneasiness. As reg-arded 

 them, fancy or something worse had dressed the 

 future prospect with the gayest colours ; he had 

 seventy thousand pounds to receive, he said, after all 

 his debts should be paid ; had engaged McDonald, 

 the jockey, to be his trainer and rider of his new stud 

 of race-horses ; and had purchased a capital house in 

 Curzon Street, May Fair, where, of course, there 

 were a knife and fork for me, and bail for ten thousand 

 pounds! Neither did he appear to care twopence for 

 what had occurred at Halston. It was to be reinstated 

 in its former splendour, and once more was I to be 

 his CTuest. It would have been cruel to have un- 

 deceived him here. Like the good citizen of Argos, 

 he might have upbraided us for so doing, and exactly 

 in his words : — 



" Pol me occidistis, amici, 

 Non servastis," ait, " cui sic extorta voluptas, 

 Etdeniptus per vim mentis gratissimus error."* 



But the sore was not yet laid bare. A very elegant 

 writer has observed, " There are some strokes of cala- 



* " It would have been better, my friends, that you should have 

 destroyed me, than to have deprived me of the most agreeable delusion 

 of the himian mind," 



