"No, no: what would become of my money?" he answered, with a smile which Dorothy understood. The doctor imagined it the speech of a man whom previous poverty and suddenly supervening wealth had made penurious. "Oh!" he remarked reassuringly, "you need not spend a penny more abroad than you do at home. The difference in the living would, in some places, quite make up for the expense of the journey." The minister looked bewildered for a moment, then seemed to find himself, smiled again, and replied-- "You do not quite understand me: I have a great deal of money to spend, and it ought to be spent here in England where it was made--God knows how." "You may get help to spend it in England, without throwing your life away with it," said the doctor, who could not help thinking of his own large family. "Yes, I dare say I might--from many--but it was given _me_ to spend--in destroying injustice, in doing to men as others ought to have done to them. My preaching was such a poor affair that it is taken from me, and a lower calling given me--to spend money. If I do not well with that, then indeed I am a lost man. If I be not faithful in that which is another's, who will give me that which is my own? If I can not further the coming of Christ, I can at least make a road or two, exalt a valley or two, to prepare His way before Him." Thereupon it was the doctor's turn to smile. All that was to him as if spoken in a language unknown, except that he recognized the religious tone in it. "The man is true to his profession," he said to himself, "--as he ought to be of course; but catch me spending _my_ money that way, if I had but a hold of it!" His father died soon after, and he got a hold of the money he called _his_, whereupon he parted with his practice, and by idleness and self-indulgence, knowing all the time what he was about, brought on an infirmity which no skill could cure, and is now a grumbling invalid, at one or another of the German spas. I mention it partly because many preferred this man to Faber on the ground that he went to church every Sunday, and always shook his head at the other's atheism.