its accustomed
labours, and we are only seeing our characters away from their work.
Corydon has to cart the litter and thresh the barley, as well as to make
love to Phillis; Ancillula has to dress and wash the nursery, to wait at
breakfast and on her misses, to take the children out, etc., before
she can have her brief sweet interview through the area-railings with
Boopis, the policeman. All day long have his heels to beat the stale
pavement before he has the opportunity to snatch the hasty kiss or the
furtive cold pie. It is only at moments, and away from these labours,
that we can light upon one character or the other; and hence, though
most of the persons of whom we are writing have doubtless their grave
employments and avocations, it is only when they are disengaged and
away from their work, that we can bring them and the equally disengaged
reader together.

The macaronis and fine gentlemen at White's and Arthur's continued to
show poor Harry Warrington such a very cold shoulder, that he sought
their society less and less, and the Ring and the Mall and the
gaming-table knew him no more. Madame de Bernstein was for her nephew's
braving the indifference of the world, and vowed that it would be
conquered, if he would but have courage to face it; but the young man
was too honest to wear a smiling face when he was discontented; to
disguise mortification or anger; to parry slights by adroit flatteries
or cunning impudence; as many gentlemen and gentlewomen must and do who
wish to succeed in society.

"You pull a long face, Harry, and complain of the world's treatment of
you," the old lady said. "Fiddlededee, sir! Everybody has to put up with
impertinences: and if you get a box on the ear now you are poor and cast
down, you must say nothing about it, bear it with a smile, and if
you can, revenge it ten years after. Moi qui vous parle, sir!--do you
suppose I have had no humble-pie to eat? All of us in our turn are
called upon to swallow it: and, now you are no longer the Fortunate
Youth, be the Clever Youth, and win back the place you have lost by your
ill luck. Go about more than ever. Go to all the routs and parties to
which you are asked, and to more still. Be civil to everybody--to all
women especially. Only of course take care to show your spirit, of
which you have plenty. With economy, and by your brother's, I must say,
admirable generosity, you can still make a genteel figure. With your
handsome person, sir, you ca