I fancy my master would have no objection to put forth a little to send his brother in some place abroad, for to be sure it is a shame to see a young man idling at home, who has nothing of his own, and hanging upon a generous Gentleman, who is but a half-brother after all, and not obliged to maintain him." I was so provoked at his impudence that I could have throttled the rascal; but I curbed my passion, and saying, "Very true, Peter," I turned short from him, and retired to my room. "Now, Sir, putting all this together, what must you think of the Count?"
Ferdinand, who was walking rather before Ernest, and his head hanging on his breast, turned round suddenly, with a look that expressed a thousand contending passions, twice he opened his lips to speak, but the conflict in his mind precluded all powers of articulation, and he gladly availed himself of a seat which just then appeared in view, though only the root of a tree, to sit down, for his trembling limbs could no longer support
