When noblemen and gentlemen marry for the sake of money, they ought always to take especial care that they have money enough: for it is much better to suffer many disadvantages from pecuniary deficiency, and to remain unmarried, than to marry one who has not money enough to answer all purposes. Ladies with small fortunes may not thank us for this remark; but they will, on second thoughts, consider that such a husband as the Right Hon. the Earl of Trimmerstone is not worth having. It is not unlikely that his lordship would, had the law allowed him so to do, have married another wife for the sake of pecuniary aid, and have deserted the daughter of Sir Gilbert Sampson. Perhaps it might be an improvement in the system of accommodating legislation, if hereditary legislators would allow themselves the privilege of marrying two or more wives, provided these wives were all of plebeian extraction; by such means a greater number of city people might purchase nobility for their daughters, and the estates of the titled be relieved from many of their embarrassments. But legislation is not our present subject; so to proceed. The Earl of Trimmerstone finding that thinking was a disagreeable and unpleasant occupation, and not being much allured to stay at home by the magnificent decorations of his drawing-room, which Mr. Martindale had so much admired, took his departure without any inquiries after the health or even existence of the Countess. He sauntered about the streets, and looked at the shop-windows, and looked at the people as they passed, and at the carriages; and he looked among those on foot, and among those in carriages, for some one to speak or move to; but his friends were not to be met with that morning. He wondered what had become of Sloper; for he used to be almost always sure of meeting him in St. James’s Street at a certain hour of the day. He strolled into Pall Mall, and was very sleepy; and he stood so long rubbing his eyes and stretching his arms at the gate of St. James’s Palace, that he positively set the sentinels yawning. He smiled at the effect of sympathy; and the sentinels also smiled modestly, and with appearance of great gratification: for it is a high honor to be smiled at by a man of rank and consequence; and they knew that he must be a man of rank and consequence, because he was very sleepy, and did not know what to do with himself.