LIFE OF MYTTON. 



John Mytton. The first step he took after his 

 release from the prison was, to call upon the person 

 who had caused him to be thus disgraced, and to walk 

 arm-in-arm with him on the market-place, lest, as he 

 said, the affair might injure his character in the town, 

 he being a professional man. Reader, I'll bar you 

 from one book, and one book alone ; you shall then 

 search the pages of ancient and modern history, and I 

 challenge you to produce me a nobler instance of a 

 nobler heart than the one I have now given you. 

 The power of bearing and forbearing, which con- 

 stituted Epictetus's wise man, comes, perhaps, next 

 to it in theory. 



But the storm soon gathers again. After sojourn- 

 inof a certain time at the Crown Hotel, in Calais, with 

 a score to his name of a thousand francs, he came to 

 my house in the country, to inform me he should go 

 to England on the morrow. It was in vain that I 

 told him he could not do so without first paying his 

 bill, which I knew he had not, at that time, the 

 means of doing. He, however, put himself into the 

 Boulogne coach the next afternoon, meaning to em- 

 bark from that town, having, perhaps fortunately, 

 informed the barber who shaved him of his intentions, 

 which intentions the barber, of course, conveyed 



