orse department; I wish you 'd take that under your
protectorate; we shall want any number of screws for saddle and harness,
with drags, breaks, and machines of all kinds, to drive about in. Do,
pray, be master of the horse."

"Thanks; but I hate and detest trouble of all kinds. So far as selling
you two of my own,--a wall-eye and a bone-spavin included,--I consent."

"Agreed. Everything in your stable carries a sidesaddle; that I know, so
name your figure."

"A hundred; they 'd bring close on fifty at Dycer's any day; so I am not
exorbitant, as these are election times."

"There 's the ticket, then," said Linton, taking out a check-book and
filling up a leaf for the sum, which he tore out and presented to Lord
Charles.

"What! has he really so far installed you as to--" "As to give blank
checks," said the other, holding up the book in evidence, where "Roland
Cashel" was written on a vast number of pages. "I never knew the
glorious sense of generosity before, Charley. I have heard a great deal
about liberal sentiments, and all that kind o' thing; but now, for the
first time, do I feel the real enjoyment of indulgence. To understand
this liberty aright, however, a man must have a squeeze,--such a squeeze
as I have experienced myself once or twice in life; and then, my boy,
as the song says,"--here, with a bold rattling air, he sang to a popular
melody,--

"When of luck you 've no card up,
And feel yourself 'hard up,'
And cannot imagine a method to win;
When 'friends' take to shy you,
And Jews to deny you,
How pleasant to dip in another man's tin!

"Not seeking or craving
Some pettyful saving,
You draw as you like upon Drummond or Gwynne,
And, while pleasure pursuing
You know there 's no ruing
The cost that comes out of another man's tin.

"Eh, Charley! that's the toast we 'Chevaliers Modernes' should drink
before the health of the royal family."

"The royal family!" sneered Frobisher; "I never observed that loyalty
was a very remarkable trait in your character."

"The greater injustice yours, then," said Linton. "I conceived a very
early attachment to monarchy, on learning the importance of the king at
ecarte."

"I should have thought the knave had more of your sympathy," said the
other.

"Inasmuch as he follows the queen, I suppose," said Linton,
good-humoredly, laughing. "But come, don't look so grave, old fellow;
had I been a political _i