The next question was more strange than the first:—
“Will the young gentleman marry me, eventually?”
“Doubtless he will when you become older,” was the reply; “and I advise you to think no more about it till you are much older.”
I obtained this item from the third party present, the husband of the fortune-teller.
X.
EMINENT PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
| Lord Say. | Why, Heaven ne’er made the universe a level. Some trees are loftier than the rest, some mountains O’erpeak their fellows, and some planets shine With brighter ray above the skyey route Than others. Nay, even at our feet, the rose Outscents the lily; and the humblest flower Is noble still o’er meaner plants. And thus Some men are nobler than the mass, and should, By nature’s order, shine above their brethren. |
| Lord Clifford. | ’Tis true the noble should; but who is noble? Heaven, and not heraldry, makes noble men. |