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146 quite at home with us, I hope. I know you are a sensible man: I know you have that happy disposition which is its own best reward, and quite understand that you do not enter my house from any mercenary motives, but for other reasons,—because you know the regard I have for you, and the good position it will give you in the eyes of the world. Still, some definite sum should he fixed, perhaps. I leave it to you to name your own terms; remembering, of course, that you will have a good many presents made you in the course of the year: but you scholars, as becomes your profession, are above mere money considerations, I know." At last it is agreed to leave the amount of the tutor's salary to a friend of the family; and the referee, a mere creature and toady himself, after reminding the poor scholar of his extreme good fortune in having made "such a valuable connection," names a sum which is quite ridiculously inadequate.

This is not the worst. The unhappy dependant will soon find his treatment in the house very different from his first introduction. "You must not expect to have the same fare as strangers and others have: that would be considered insufferable presumption. The dish placed before you will not be the same as the others. Their fowl will be plump and well fed: yours will he half a skinny chicken, or a dry tough pigeon; a direct slight and insult. Nay, often, if the bill of fare is scanty, and an additional guest comes in, the servant will actually take the dish from before you and give it to him; whispering familiarly in your ear