send more it the woman and her attention i cannot abide but country washing but i should be vastly sorry to have to live there what can a man find to do you don t hunt george when i do it s a woman but surely you don t go to hounds charles i was out with the last winter the did you hear how i smoked the story has been in the clubs this month past i bet him that my bag would weigh more than his he got three and a half brace but i shot his liver coloured so he had to pay but as to hunting what amusement can there be in flying about among a s crowd of greasy galloping farmers every man to his own taste but s window by day and a snug comer of the table at s by night give me all i want for mind and body you heard how i plucked the i i have been out of town i had eight thousand from him at a sitting i shall drink your beer in mr said i every in london does said he it was monstrous of him but some people cannot lose with grace well i am going down to street to pay jew king a little of my interest are you bound that way well good bye then i ll see you and your young friend at the club or in the no doubt and he sauntered off upon his way that young man is destined to take my place said my gravely when had departed he is quite young and of no descent but he has made his way by his cool his natural taste and his extravagance of speech there is no man who can be in so polished a fashion he has a half smile and a way of raising his eyebrows for which he will be shot one of these mornings already his opinion is quoted in the clubs as a rival to my own well every man has his day and when i am convinced that mine is passed st james s street shall know me no more for it is not in stone my nature to be second to any man but now nephew in that and suit you may pass anywhere so if you please we will step into my m d m and i will show you something of the town how can i describe all that we saw and all that we did upon that lovely spring day to me it was as if i had been to a fairy and my uncle might have been some benevolent in a high long coat who was guiding me about in it he showed me the west end streets with the bright carriages and the gaily dressed ladies and men all crossing and hurrying and like an nest when you turn it over with a stick never had i formed a conception of such endless banks of houses and such a ceaseless stream of life flowing between then we passed down the strand where the crowd was thicker than ever and even penetrated beyond temple bar and into the city though my uncle begged me not to mention it for he would not wish it to be generally known there i saw the exchange and the bank and s coffee house with the brown sharp faced merchants and the hurrying clerks the huge horses and the busy it was a very different world this from that which we had left in the west � a world of energy and of strength where s there was no place for the and the idle young as i was i knew that it was here in the forest of merchant shipping in the which swung up to the windows in the loaded which roared over the that the power of britain lay here in the city of london was the from which empire and wealth and so many other fine leaves had fashion and speech and manners may change but the spirit of enterprise within that square mile or two of land must not change for when it all that has grown from it must also we at s the fashionable inn in bond street where i saw a line of and saddle horses which stretched from the door to the further end of the street and thence we went to the in st james s park and thence to s the great club and thence again to s where the men of fashion used to everywhere i met the same sort of men with their stiff figures and small all showing the utmost deference to my uncle and for his sake an easy of me the talk was always such as i had already heard at the talk of politics talk of the king s health talk of the prince s extravagance of the expected renewal of war of horse racing and of the ring i saw too that was as stone my uncle had told me the fashion and if the folk upon the continent look upon us even to this day as being a nation of it is no doubt a tradition handed down from the time when the only travellers whom they were likely to see were drawn from the class which i was now meeting it was an age of heroism and of folly on the one hand soldiers sailors and of the quality of and afterwards had been forced to the front by the imminent menace of we were great in arms and were soon also to be great in literature for scott and were in their day the strongest forces in europe on the other hand a touch of madness real or assumed was a through doors which were closed to wisdom and to virtue the man who could enter a walking upon his hands the 