when he was left without any other protection; and the efficacy of
these qualities in keeping a man out of harm's way is really
immense. In all baseness and imposture there is a coarse, vulgar
spirit, which, however artfully concealed for a time, must sooner
or later show itself in some little circumstance sufficiently plain
to occasion an instant jar upon the minds of those whose taste is
lively and true. To such men a shock of this kind, disclosing the
UGLINESS of a cheat, is more effectively convincing than any mere
proofs could be.

Thus guarded from isle to isle, and through Greece, and through
Albania, this practical Plato with a purse in his hand, carried on
his mad chase after the good and the beautiful, and yet returned in
safety to his home. But now, poor fellow! the lowly grave, that is
the end of men's romantic hopes, has closed over all his rich
fancies, and all his high aspirations; he is utterly married! No
more hope, no more change for him--no more relays--he must go on
Vetturini-wise to the appointed end of his journey!

Smyrna, I think, may be called the chief town and capital of the
Grecian race, against which you will be cautioned so carefully as
soon as you touch the Levant. You will say that I ought not to
confound as one people the Greeks living under a constitutional
government with the unfortunate Rayahs who "groan under the Turkish
yoke," but I can't see that political events have hitherto produced
any strongly marked difference of character. If I could venture to
rely (which I feel that I cannot at all do) upon my own
observation, I should tell you that there was more heartiness and
strength in the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire than in those of the
new kingdom. The truth is, that there is a greater field for