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books, Francisci Rabehesi *a TUV avrov ^\\s>v, so there might
have been inscribed over Mr. Haliday's library door, " The
Books of Charles Haliday and his friends."
Now that he is gone it gratifies me to think that I had
an opportunity to pay him this well-deserved compliment
publicly, in his lifetime. It will be found in the preface
to the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, first published
in 1865. But, however, he may have been secretly pleased
with this testimony to his liberality, he was not so when
he found his abode described there as " his Lucullan Villa "
declaring it was too bad to use such terms of a place where
he never gave me anything but a leg of mutton. For such
was invariably his Sunday dinner, as he used to let all his
servants but one go out until dinner time, this one being
kept to watch the roast, and it was only this joint he said
which any one could attend to. This humanity to his
servants was exhibited in other ways.
HU Saturday
enterUinmento.
Saturday J being a favourite banqueting day among mer-
J u i i
chants as the eve of a day of rest from their labours, he
gave way to their humour ;
but whenever he had a dinner
party on this day he locked the dining-room door when his
guests were gone at night, leaving the wine, the dessert,
the silver plate and the glass and the whole table just a- it
was, till Monday morning, not to break in upon his servants'
Sunday rest.
He used to say there were two reasons assigned for the
Sabbath in different places in Scripture. One being that
given in the twelve Commandments, in the 20th chapter of
Exodus, that is to say because God rested on that day, the
other in the 23rd chapter, " that thine ox and thine ass may
rest, and the son of thy handmaid," and that this last was
the one he preferred to keep in view.
But I pacified him by pointing out to him that it was
not his table I referred to so much as his library, having
taken care to specify that Plutarch in describing the
elegance- >f L-urullu.s's Villa praised him for the lil-r.-rii-s lie