CHAP. li.J MAKING SHIFT TO EXIST.

only ground for a surmise that those services were replaced 1757.
by Goldsmith's. The magazine itself shows little mark of Ms -®>-29
hand, until Ins admitted connection with it some months later.
Toiling thus through an obscurity dark as the life itself,
the inquirer finds on a sudden a glimpse of light, winch for
an instant places him in that garret near Salisbury-square.
Its inmate sits alone in wretched drudgery, when the door
opens, and a raw-looking country youth of twenty stands
doubtfully on the doleful threshold. Goldsmith sees at
once his youngest brother Charles; but Charles cannot
bring himself to see, in the occupier of this miserable
dwelling, the brother on whose supposed success he had
already built his own! Without education, profession,
friends, or resource of any kind, it had suddenly occurred
to this enterprising Irish lad, as he lounged in weary
idleness round Ballymahon, that as brother Oliver had
not been asking for assistance lately, but was now a settled
author in London, perhaps he had gotten great men for
his friends, and a kind word to one of them might be
the making of his fortune. Full of this he scrambled to
London as he could, won the secret of the house from the
Temple Exchange waiter to whom, he confided Ms rela-
tionship, and found the looked-for architect of wealth and
honour, here/* "All in good time, my dear boy," cried

* "Having heard of his brother Noll mixing in. the first society in London, he
" took it for granted that his fortune was made, and that he could soon make
"a brother's also : he therefore left home without notice; but soon found,
"on his arrival in London, that the picture he had formed of his brother's
"situation was too highly coloured, that Noll •would not introduce him, to his
"great friends, and in fact, that, although out of a jail, he was also often out of
"a lodging." Northcote's lAfe of Reynolds, i. 332-3. I may add, on the
authority of a letter of Malone's, that some thirty or forty years after this incident
Charles was thought greatly to resemble his celebrated brother in person, speech,
and manner; and it will be observed from the succeeding note, that he had at
that time many habits and tastes like his, such as the lore of flute-playing, and a
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