which had been contemporary with the successive stages of his prosperity he was always listened to with interest a man who had been bom in the year when good old king george came to the throne � who had been acquainted with the leg of the prince and hinted at private reasons for believing that the princess ought not to have died � had matter as special ta his as could have had on his return from travel my good sir he said to mr as he crossed his knees and spread his silk handkerchief over them may be returned or he may not be that s a question for north but it makes little to the kingdom i don t want to say things which may put younger men out of spirits but i believe this country has seen its best days � i do indeed i am sorry to hear it from one of your experience mr said the a large happy looking man i d make a good fight the radical myself before i d leave a worse world for my boys than found for myself there isn t a greater pleasure than doing a bit of planting and improving one s buildings and one s in some pretty acres of land when it up here and there � land you ve known from a boy it s a nasty thought that these are to turn things round so as one can calculate on nothing one doesn t like it for one s self and one doesn t like it for one s neighbors but somehow i believe it won t do if we can t trust the government just now there s providence and the good sense of the country and there s a right in things � that s what ive always said � there s a right in things the heavy end will get and if church and king and every man being sure of his own are things good for this country there s a god above will take care of em it won t do my dear sir said mr � it won t do when and the duke turned round about the in saw it was all over with us we could never trust ministers any more it was to keep off a rebellion they said but i say it was to keep their places they re fond of place both of them � that i know here mr changed the crossing of his legs and gave a deep conscious of having made a point then he went on � what we want id a king with a good will of his own if we d had that we shouldn t have heard what we ve heard to day reform would never have come to this pass when our good old king george the third heard his ministers talking about catholic he their ears all round ah poor soul i he did indeed gentlemen ended mr shaken by a deep laugh of admiration well now that s something like a king said mr who was an eager listener it was though how did they take it said mr rose a gentleman farmer from against whose independent position nature had provided the of a spontaneous his large cheeks round twinkling eyes and habitually expressed a concentrated effort not to get into trouble and to speak every body fair except when they were safely out of hearing take it i they d be obliged to take it aid the impetuous young a of superior information have you ver heard of the king s i don t say but what i have said rose retreating i ve nothing against it � nothing at all no but the have said young the is what they want to close they want us to be governed by from the trades who are to dictate to every body and make every thing square to their mastery they re a pretty set now those said mr with disgust i once heard two of em away they re a sort of fellow i d never employ in my or anywhere else i ve seen it again and again if a man takes to tongue work it s all over with him every thing s wrong says he that s a big text but does he want to make every thing right not he he d lose his text we want every man s good say they why they never knew yet what a man s good is how should they it s working for his � not getting a of other people s ay ay said young cordially i should just have liked all the in the country for our to go into � that s all they d see where the strength of old england lay then may tell what it is for a country to to trade when it such fellows as those that isn t the fault of trade my good sir said mr who was often a little pained by the defects of provincial culture trade properly conducted is good for a man s constitution i could have shown you in my time past seventy with all their faculties as sharp as a doing without spectacles it s the new system of trade that s to blame a country can t have too much if it s properly managed plenty of sound have made their fortune by trade you ve heard of co � every body has heard of well sir i knew old mr as well as i know you he was once a of mine in a city and now i ll answer for it he has a larger rent roll than lord bless your soul his to would make a fine income for a nobleman and he s as good a tory as i am and as for his town why how much 