ISTo doubt the feat was easy to Mr. TJtterson ; for ht
was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship
seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-
nature. It is the mark of a modest man to accept his
friendly circle ready-made from the hands of oppor-
tunity ; and that was the lawyer's way. His friends
were those of his own blood or those whom he had' ■
known the longest ; his affections, like ivy, were the
growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to Mr.
Hichard Enfield, his distant kinsman, Ihe well-known
man about town. It was a nut to crack for many, what
these two could see in each other, or what subject they
could find in common. It was reported by those who
encountered them in their Sunday walks, that they said
nothing, looked singularly dull, and would hail with
obvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that,
the two men put the greatest store by these excursions,
counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not
only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted
the calls of business, that they might enjoy them unin-
terrupted.
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them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London.
