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This hilarious temperament had no insensibility ; a kinder heart never beat , -- but , to be sure , it beat to a strange , restless , tarantula sort of measure , which kept it in a perpetual dance . It made him one of those officiously good fellows who are never quiet themselves , and never let any one else be quiet if they can help it . But Guy 's great fault , in this prudent world , was his absolute incontinence of money . If you had turned a Euphrates of gold into his pockets at morning , it would have been as dry as the Great Sahara by twelve at noon . What he did with the money was a mystery as much to himself as to every one else . His father said , in a letter to me , that `` he had seen him shying at sparrows with half-crowns ! '' That such a young man could come to no good in England , seemed perfectly clear .