Egerton.

(To Chadbourne)

A sort of luck, you see, this getting on.

Chadbourne.

Predestination.

Egerton.

Yes; if a man's rich
He couldn't help but be. There's some old lamp,
An heirloom in his family, that he rubs.
And if he's poor, 'Hard luck.'

Chadbourne.

Or been 'ground down.'

Egerton.