_Mrs. S._ In _every_ contingency, JOSEPH. How unlike that talented, but untrustworthy, senior of his, and of yours, WILL GLADSTONE; a lad whose leadership you once acknowledged, but whose pernicious influence, I am happy to find, you have lately quite cast off. _Master Joe_ (_knowingly_). Rather! Where there's a WILL there's a way; and WILL thought it must always be _his_ way. But "not for JOE!" _Dr. T._ Again, JOSEPH, is not that--ahem!--quotation from the popular minstrelsy of our time a _leetle_ reminiscent of ruder, and more Radical days? _Master Joe_. Perhaps so, Sir, perhaps so. Let me then say that "_Ego primam tollo, nominor quoniam Leo_" is a very pretty maxim for lions--and jackals. The former _rôle_ I may not yet have risen to, but I'm hanged if I'll stoop to the latter. _Dr. T._ Quite so, quite so! At any rate, not in such a questionable _Leonina Societas_. Remember, also, JOSEPH, what an awful example you have in young GRANDOLPH, with whom, at one time, you seemed a little intimate. You have only to reflect upon _his fiasco_, "to have the counsels of prudence borne in imperatively upon your mind, and the lesson will not be the less impressively taught if it is remembered that GRANDOLPH will be on the spot to take note of and profit by any mistakes that may be committed by his more deserving and successful rival." _Master Joe_ (_aside_). Lessons all round, eh? Seems to me all this grandmotherly advice is wondrous like a "wigging" in disguise. Perhaps they'll find I'm better at teaching than learning. _Mrs. S._ _Cavendo tutus_, JOSEPH, safe by caution. The motto of your predecessor. You cannot do better than take it as your own. _Master Joe_ (_innocently_). Think not, Ma'am? I fancy every man ought to have his _own_ motto. Now _I_ was thinking of _Cede nullis_! [Illustration: THE NEW MONITOR. DR. TIMES. "YOU'RE A CLEVER BOY, JOE, AND WE CONGRATULATE YOU; BUT NOW YOU'RE IN A POSITION OF RESPONSIBILITY,--AHEM!--YOU MUST--AHEM!--BEHAVE YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY!"] _Doctor T._ Tut--tut--tut, JOSEPH! Inappropriate,--in your _present_ position. You will have to yield to _many_,--to those in authority over you, in fact. "Leaders! (and Monitors) have to subordinate their personal tastes, and even their individual convictions, to an enlarged conception of the general advantage." _Mrs. S._ Yes, JOE, don't, whatever you do, compromise your authority by any indiscreet or extravagant insistance-- _Master Joe_ (_quickly, though with becoming gravity_). Quite so, Ma'am! _Very_ true, Sir! My "conceptions," I may say, have "enlarged" considerably of late, since I have found (as Mrs. S. well says) "how much of my antipathy" (to the powers that be) "was sheer prejudice." And, as to "the general advantage," I am sanguine that I shall find it consonant--if not identical--with my own. _Doctor T._ (_dubiously_). Humph! Suppose you say _yours_ with _it_, JOSEPH?