Walton. To people of equal sensibility, the
influence of those trifles we mentioned on his deportment will not
appear surprising, but to his friends in the country they could not
be stated, nor would they have allowed them any place in the
account. In some of their letters, therefore, which he received
soon after, they expressed their surprise at his not having been
more urgent in his application, and again recommended the blushless
assiduity of successful merit.
He resolved to make another attempt at the baronet's; fortified with
higher notions of his own dignity, and with less apprehension of
repulse. In his way to Grosvenor Square he began to ruminate on the
folly of mankind, who affixed those ideas of superiority to riches,
which reduced the minds of men, by nature equal with the more
fortunate, to that sort of servility which he felt in his own. By
the time he had reached the Square, and was walking along the
pavement which led to the baronet's, he had brought his reasoning on
the subject to such a point, that the conclusion, by every rule of
logic, should have led him to a thorough indifference in his
approaches to a fellow-mortal, whether that fellow-mortal was
possessed of six or six thousand pounds a year.
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