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ARIADNE. —29not reverent of death are reverent of wealth" He was the richest manin Ghetto."And thus it proved.What he would have said to me, noman couldtell;but b\' all the people round him his largepossessions had been long suspected.The Syrian Jew had died as so many a miserhas died in this world, a starved and wretchedskeleton,but leaving a mass of wealth behindhim, and no word of any kind to will it, fordeath had come upon him unawares, and nodoubt like all men whose treasures lie in thingsof earth, the veiy thought of death had alwaysbeen shunned, and put awajr, bjr him.There were a great outcry in the place, andgreat agitation, for he had lived and died a badand cruel man, and had been muchhated even byhis ownpeople, and had always been thought anusurer;and nowit seemed there was no kind ofwealth he had not owned in secret, gold andsilver,scrip and bond,and, though none of hispersuasion can ownhouse or land inRome,manyof those Ghetto leases, one of which is thoughta fine fair fortune.