young bachelor wondered that had not taught them better my mother is not used to my having visitors who can take any interest in my said the as he opened the door of his study which was indeed as bare of luxuries for the body as the ladies had implied unless a short pipe and a tobacco box were to be men of profession don t generally smoke he said smiled and shook his head nor of mine either properly i suppose you will hear that pipe alleged against me by and company they don t know how pleased the devil would be if i gave it up i understand you are of an temper and want a i am heavier and should get idle with it i should rush into and there with all my might ana you mean to give it all to your work i am some ten or twelve years older than you and have come to a compromise i feed i e � a weakness or two lest they should get see continued the opening several small drawers i fancy i have made study of the of district i am going on both with the and i have at least done my insects well we are singularly rich i don t know whether � ah you have got hold of that glass jar � you are looking into that instead of my drawers you don t care about these things not by the side of thia lovely monster i have never had time to give k much to natural history i was early bitten with an interest and it is what lies most directly in my profession i besides i have the sea to swim in there ah you are a happy fellow said mr turning on his heel and beginning to fill his pipe you don t know what it is to want spiritual tobacco � bad of old or small about a variety of with the well known signature of for me s magazine or a learned on the of the including all the insects not mentioned but probably met with by the in their passage through the desert with a on the ant as treated by solomon the harmony of the book of with the results of modem you don t mind my you ate was more surprised at the of this talk man at its implied meaning � that the felt not altogether in tlie right the neat fitting up of drawers and and the with expensive books on natural history made him think again of the at cards and their destination but he was beginning to wish that the very best construction of everything that mr did should be the true one the frankness seemed not of the repulsive sort that comes from an uneasy consciousness seeking to the judgment of others but simply the relief of a desire to do with as little pretence as possible apparently he was not without a sense that his freedom of speech m tt seem premature for lie said i have not yet told you that i have the advantage of you mr and know you better than you know me you remember who shared your apartment at paris for some time was a correspondent of his and he told me a good deal about you i was not quite sure when you first came that you were the same man i was very glad when i found that you were only i don t forget that you have not had the like about me divined some delicacy of feeling here but did not half understand it by the way he said what has become of i have quite lost sight of him he was hot on the french social systems and talked of going to the to found a sort of community is he gone not at all he is at a bath and has married a rich patient book il � old and young then my notions wear the so said with a short laugh he have it the profession was an inevitable of i said the was in the men � men who to lies and folly instead of preaching against outside the walls it might be better to set up a apparatus within in short l am my own conversation � you may be sure i had all the good sense on my side your scheme is a good deal more difficult to carry out than the community though you have not only got the old adam in yourself against you but you have got all those descendants of the original who form the society around you you see i have paid twelve or thirteen years more than you for my knowledge of difficulties but � mr broke off a moment and then added you are that glass do you want to make an exchange you not have it a i have some � fine � in spirits and i will throw in robert brown s new � observations on the of plants � if you don t happen to have it already why seeing how you long for the monster i might ask a higher price suppose i ask you to look through my drawers and with me about all my new species the while he talked in this way alternately moved about with his pipe in his mouth and to hang rather fondly over his drawers that would be good discipline you know for a doctor who has to please his s in you must learn to be bored remember you shall have the monster on your own terms don t you think men the necessity for s nonsense till they get despised by the very fools they said te to mr s side and rather at the insects ranged in fine with names in exquisite writing the shortest way is to make your value felt so 