"Hurry, man! why how will you see him any sooner by this? Why, you might as well have walked up and down Main-street till to-morrow; it would have advanced you just as much on your journey." "You're right, sir, I know that; but I really _couldn't_ wait: I wanted to feel I was going ahead, and getting _nearer_ my brother at any rate; I got so impatient-like. No, sir; I couldn't have staid till the morning any how you could fix it." "You'll have to walk for your folly, for you'll get no conveyance this way, I tell you." "I'll have to walk the twenty miles to-night, I suppose," said Kentucky, with the most imperturbable smiling composure; "but never mind that! I shall be getting near my brother, then. Ha," he said, after a pause, "you see I _do_ love my brother, sir, and I don't regard trouble for him. I'll have to walk the twenty miles to-night with my bundle, I dare say, and spending money at that, too, perhaps, for a bit of food; but I couldn't have _waited_--no! not another hour at Louisville--I felt so like getting _nearer_ to my brother." At the end of the argument about money-making being the all in all, one or two of us signified briefly that we thought Kentucky was right. You never saw any body so surprised. He had evidently entertained a deep conviction that all in the stage-coach were opposed to his opinions, and that he stood alone in his view on the matter. He replied he was glad any body thought as he did, and reiterated with strong emphasis to his opponent: "I'm sure, sir, I'm right; it is the principle, and the manners, and the mind, and _not_ money that makes a gentleman. No, no; money can never make half a one." I shall feel a respect for "old Kentucky" forever after for his sake. FOOTNOTE: [13] From Lady Emeline Stuart Wortley's "Travels in the United States in 1849-50," in the press of Harper and Brothers. ANECDOTES OF JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN.[14] CURRAN'S START IN LIFE.