in the enjoyment of doing nothing, or the vague expectation of having something to do.

countenance.

Miserably clad, disgustingly filthy, squalid, meagre, and famished, the petitioner for employment had yet humour in his eye, and observation in his Occasionally ready to assist, and always prompt to flatter, he did neither gratuitously. Taunt and invective seemed the natural expression of his habit; for though debasingly acquiescent to a destiny, which left him without motive for industry, in a country where industry is no refuge from distress, he yet preserved the vindictiveness of conscious degradation; and there was frequently a deep-seated sincerity in his curse, which was sometimes wanting to his purchased benediction. Idleness had become the custom of his necessity; and his wants were so few, that a trifling exertion would supply them. Yet he sought

early and late for employment; for he had probably wants more urgent than his own to satisfy.

This unfortunate representative of his class had hitherto lolled on the pier, a listless spectator of the scene, which was going forward, muttering at intervals a shrewd observation, laughing deridingly as he threw his eyes over the French valet, whose foreign air and dress were peculiarly notable; and again composing his sharp features into a look of respectful deference, as he reiterated his question to him, whom he supposed the master."Will I step in for a jingle, your hong? will I, Sir?” "Step in!" at lasted Mr. De Vere, struck perhaps by the calm steady perseverance of his intrusion-" step in where, friend?" "Step into Dublin, plaze your honor, for a jingle, Sir, or a hack

"Is Dublin so near then ?"

"It is, plaze your honor, handy bye,

Sir, quite convanient:
:: yez wont miss
your honor, till I bees back wid ye."

me,

"If Dublin is so near," said Mr. De Vere, closing his book, and addressing the Commodore, who now, with his rapid step, approached him, after having given his orders to his mate and men"if Dublin is so near, I should prefer walking, to trusting to any filthy vehicle we may be able to procure at this unseasonable hour."

"I meant to propose it," was the re

ply; and the active animated speaker, taking a rich pelisse from his mate, which he drew over his ship dress, and exchanging his cap for a round hat, he gave some additional orders in Spanish, and desired the sailor, who stood beside him, with a large valise on his shoulder, and writing case in his hand, to follow him to Dublin. The two gentlemen then proceeded, arm in arm, to town, furnished by the officers of the customs with a card of one of the many hotels

which now succeed in the patrician streets of Dublin to the mansions of the banished nobility.

Mr. De Vere, to whom the vulgar exertions of every-day life were all unknown, and even unguessed at, had left every thing to a valet, as helpless as himself. For the first time since he had come into his master's service, he was deprived of the assistance of a certain Portuguese laquais, one who spoke all languages, performed all services, and united all the intrigue, roguery, and ingenuity of the Pedrillos and Lazarillos of the Spanish comedy. This man had been dismissed for mal-practices, at the moment his master was leaving the port of Lisbon for that of Plymouth; and since that period the Frenchman had acted without deputy or interpreter. But as almost the whole of the interval had been passed at sea (for his master had remained but a few hours at Plymouth), he had but slightly felt the in

convenience. Now, however, left to act, not only for his master, but for himself, he remained, standing on the pier, in all the embarrass of endless books, parcels, and the splendid necessaire of the portable toilette. He had alternately taken up and laid down a valise, a dressing box, and a pocket edition of Zamora's Spanish Plays; accompanying cach movement with a "sacre," "diantre," or"Peste de moname," slowly rolled forth from between his closed teeth; when the English sailor, jerking his own load on his shoulders,exclaimed,"come,come, mounseer, know your own mind; either wait till we sends a coach for you and your trumpery, or get some-un to help you."

"Shure I'll carry in them portmantles to town for you, mounseer, and the leather box, to boot, for a trifle," observed the Irishman; who, disappointed in the commission he had sought, had remained motionless and silent, till the hope of