Now you mustn’t ask me for wealth or power;
I couldn’t supply them although I should hang for it.
You can’t think how slack the whole business is;—
Transactions have dwindled most pitiably.
Nothing doing in souls; only now and again
A stray one——
Peer.
The race has improved so remarkably?
The Lean One.
No, just the reverse; it’s sunk shamefully low;—