"And the labor of rendering it productive," added Ernest.
"But how do you manage for a lawyer to convey it?"
"I was advising Ernest to adopt that profession," said Mrs. Becker; "wills and contracts would be in harmony with his studious temperament."
"At present, the question before us," said Becker, "is the allotment of quarters; in the meantime, Mr. and Mrs. Wolston, with the young ladies, will continue to occupy our room."
"No, no," said Wolston "that would be downright expropriation."
"In that case the matter comes within the sphere of our lawyer, and I therefore request his advice."
To this Ernest replied, by slowly examining his pockets; after this operation was deliberately performed, he said, in a nisi prius tone, "That he had forgotten his spectacles, and consequently that it was impossible for him to look into the case in the way its importance demanded, otherwise he was quite of the same opinion as his learned brother—his father, he meant."
"And what if we refuse?" said Mrs. Wolston.
"If you refuse, Mrs. Wolston, there is only one other course to adopt."
"And what is that, Master Frank?"