" Mrs. Gin is the poor man's friend,—his sole set-off against the rich man's luxury. Glancing towards him she saw that a shadow had fallen upon his face. " "No; it is only—what shall I say?—troubled. He could talk to her as frankly as he could to a man, that she would not take offence at anything so long as it was in the form of explanation. ‘I suppose he isn’t this Leonardo you spoke of?’ ‘Certainly he is not Leonardo. " Thames complied. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. But go on. He sat back in an easy chair with a hand upon each of the elbows, and looked steadfastly into the fire. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements; —the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and, whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. She found herself talking to Capes in an undertone of rational admission. You've nothing to do but to take possession. CHAPTER XVI.
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