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CHAP, ii.] DAVID GARRICK:.

writer assuring him once more of what the letter very amply I75i>.
exhihits, that it is Ms greatest desire to continue Ms Jit. si.
" affectionate Brother, D. Garriek."

But not Pitt, nor Lyttelton, nor Glover, nor the Prince
himself, can yet entirely break down the obdurate resolution
of Peter, who proves well worthy of Ms name. There are
some signs of relenting, nevertheless; as even rocks may
yield to melting influences at last. He cannot, of course, save
David the pain of feeling that he has inflicted irreparable
hurt on the respected mercantile position of Mr. Peter
Garriek of Lichfield; but he brings Mraself to close his
letter by saying, that though he never can approve of the
stage, yet he will always be David's affectionate brother.
Well, for even such scant mercies, the brother is thankful.
In the first flush of a success that might well have spurned
at every kind of control, the good-hearted little fellow con-
tinues as eager to propitiate tMs formal, unsympatMsing,
intolerant old vendor of claret and sherry, as if he were him-
self still the hobbledehoy youth of fourteen looking up with
timid deference to Ms revered superior of twenty. Every
point of complaint, as if each were the first and not the
dozenth time of urging, he meets with respectful argument
or loving remonstrance; and as to the alleged injury to
him in his mercantile position, he has now to tell Peter that
their uncle, he has it on good authority, will be reconciled
to him, " for even the Merchants say 'tis an honour to him,
"not Otherwise. As to hurting you in y^r affairs," he
goes on (his letter bears date the 24th Nov^r), " it shall be
" my constant Endeavour to promote y^r welfare with my all.
" If you should want Money, and I have it, you shall corn-
."'mand my whole, and I know I shall soon be more able by
" playing and writing to do you service than any other way."



	CHAP, ii.] DAVID GARRICK:. writer assuring him once more of what the letter very amply I75i>. exhihits, that it is Ms greatest desire to continue Ms Jit. si. " affectionate Brother, D. Garriek." But not Pitt, nor Lyttelton, nor Glover, nor the Prince himself, can yet entirely break down the obdurate resolution of Peter, who proves well worthy of Ms name. There are some signs of relenting, nevertheless; as even rocks may yield to melting influences at last. He cannot, of course, save David the pain of feeling that he has inflicted irreparable hurt on the respected mercantile position of Mr. Peter Garriek of Lichfield; but he brings Mraself to close his letter by saying, that though he never can approve of the stage, yet he will always be David's affectionate brother. Well, for even such scant mercies, the brother is thankful. In the first flush of a success that might well have spurned at every kind of control, the good-hearted little fellow con- tinues as eager to propitiate tMs formal, unsympatMsing, intolerant old vendor of claret and sherry, as if he were him- self still the hobbledehoy youth of fourteen looking up with timid deference to Ms revered superior of twenty. Every point of complaint, as if each were the first and not the dozenth time of urging, he meets with respectful argument or loving remonstrance; and as to the alleged injury to him in his mercantile position, he has now to tell Peter that their uncle, he has it on good authority, will be reconciled to him, " for even the Merchants say 'tis an honour to him, "not Otherwise. As to hurting you in y^r affairs," he goes on (his letter bears date the 24th Nov^r), " it shall be " my constant Endeavour to promote y^r welfare with my all. " If you should want Money, and I have it, you shall corn- ."'mand my whole, and I know I shall soon be more able by " playing and writing to do you service than any other way."