both offended. What do you think of Lord Derby as a politician? And what is your opinion of Lord Palmerston? If you please, will you play me those lovely variations of "In a cottage near a wood"? It is a charming air (you know it in French, I suppose? _Ah! te dirai-je, maman?_) and was a favourite with poor Marie Antoinette. I say "poor", because I have a right to speak with pity of a sovereign who was renowned for so much beauty and so much misfortune. But as for giving any opinion on her conduct, saying that she was good or bad, or indifferent, goodness forbid! We have agreed we will not be censorious. Let us have a game at cards--at _ecarte_, if you please. You deal. I ask for cards. I lead the deuce of clubs.... What? there is no deuce! Deuce take it! What? People _will_ go on talking about their neighbours, and won't have their mouths stopped by cards, or ever so much microscopes and aquariums? Ah, my poor dear Mrs. Candour, I agree with you. By the way, did you ever see anything like Lady Godiva Trotter's dress last night? People _will_ go on chattering, although we hold our tongues; and, after all, my good soul, what will their scandal matter a hundred years hence? ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. (1819-1861.) LXX. SPECTATOR AB EXTRA. As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money. I sit at my table _en grand seigneur_, And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor, Not only the pleasure itself of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving: So pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! So pleasant it is to have money. They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of one's self, How pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking, My pleasure of thought is the pleasure of thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money. LE DINER. Come along, 'tis the time, ten or more minutes past, And he who came first had to wait for the last; The oysters ere this had been in and been out; While I have been sitting and thinking about How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money. A clear soup with eggs; _voila tout_; of the fish The _filets de sole_ are a moderate dish _A la Orly_, but you're for red mullet, you say: By the gods of good fare, who can question to-day How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money.