LOST MEN.
When bachelors get married their bachelor acquaintances see them no more. So far as concerns their chums who live in chambers, they might indeed almost as well be dead as wedded. Sometimes one of them appears in the haunts he once frequented, but he comes there like a ghost, and seems the merest shadow of the jolly chap he used to be. His old friends regard him more with sorrow than with anger, but neither he nor they derive much comfort from his visit. In fact, he drops in like a tax-gatherer, and makes every one uncomfortable. He who was once the life becomes the death;s head of their dinner-table. A Benedick with bachelors is a fish out of water; and the best thing to be done with him is to throw a bait out and try to make him hook it.
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