Nay, nay! said the Squire. It's not so easy to break one's heart. Sometimes I've wished it were. But one has to go on living—'all the appointed days,' as is said in the Bible.
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
