man is my friend for he is without an exception the highest minded the most independent spirited most original spiritual classical the most thoroughly if not and at the same time the most dog i know but sir i have not the vanity to attempt to pass for any other man in the wide world i am equal to but is i frankly confess a great many cuts above me therefore you are wrong i judged from this said mr out the cover of the letter no doubt you did returned the but mr the whole thing itself into an instance of the peculiarities of genius eveiy man of true genius has his peculiarity sir the peculiarity of my friend is that vol t and of he is always waiting round the comer he is perpetually round the comer sir he is round the comer at this instant now said the gentleman sha his forefinger before his nose and planting his legs wider apart as he looked attentively in mr s face that is a remarkably curious and interesting trait in mr s character and whenever s life comes to be written that trait must be thoroughly worked out by his or society will not be satisfied observe me society will not be satisfied mr s sir whoever he may be resumed the gentleman must apply to me or if i am gone to that what s his name from which no comes back he must apply to my for leave to search among my papers i have taken a few notes in my poor way of some of that man s proceedings � my adopted brother sir � which you he made use of an expression sir only on the of last month when he couldn t meet a little bill and the other party wouldn t renew which would have done honor to napoleon in addressing the french army and pray asked mr obviously not quite at his ease what may be mr s business here if i may be permitted to inquire who am compelled by a regard for my own character to all interest in his proceedings in the first place returned the gentleman you will permit me to say that i object to that remark and that i strongly and indignantly protest against it on behalf of my friend in the next place you will give me leave to introduce myself my name sir is the name of e wiu perhaps be familiar to you in connection with the most remarkable events of the war mr gently shook his head no matter said the gentleman that man was my father and i bear his name i am consequently proud � proud as excuse me one moment i desire my friend to be present at the remainder of this conference with announcement he hurried away to the outer door of the blue and almost immediately returned with a companion shorter than himself who was wrapped in an old blue cloak with a of faded scarlet his sharp features being much pinched and by long waiting in the cold and his straggling red whiskers and hair being si more than usually m the same cause he looked rather and uncomfortable than or now said mr clapping one hand on the shoulder of his mend and calling mr s attention to him with the other you two are related and relations never did agree and never will which is a wise and an inevitable thing or there would be none but family parties and everybody in the world would bore everybody else to death if you were on good terms i should consider you a most unnatural pair but standing towards each other as you do i look upon you as a couple of devilish deep fellows who may be reasoned with to any extent here mr whose great abilities seemed one and all to towards the quarter of the moral compass his mend stealthily with his elbow and whispered in his ear said mr aloud in the high tone of one who was not to be with i shall come to that presently i act upon my own responsibility or not at all to the extent of such a loan as a to a man of your talents i look upon mr as certain and seeing at this juncture that the expression of mr s by no means that he shared this certainty mr laid his finger on his nose again for that gentleman s private and especial calling upon him thereby to take notice that the of small was another instance of th peculiarities of genius as developed in his mend that he winked at the same because of the strong interest which these weaknesses possessed and that in reference to his own personal of such small advances he merely consulted the humour of his mend without the least regard to his own advantage or necessities oh added mr surveying his adopted brother with an air of profound contemplation after this piece of � you are upon my life a strange instance of the little that beset a mighty mind if there had never been a in the world i should have been quite certain � rom my observation of you that there were spots on the sun i wish i may die if this isn t the state of existence that we find ourselves forced b and of into without knowing why or wherefore mr well never mind as we will the world goes on as hamlet says may lay about him with his club in every possible direction but he can t prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets life s a riddle a most hard riddle to g ess mr my own opinion is that like that celebrated why 