The glittering equipage rolls byhe recalls the painful steps he has past, anticipates those which yet remain, and perhaps is tempted to repine; but when he turns his eye on the cross of Him who has promised a recompence to the sufferers of this world, he checks the sigh of envy, forgets the luxury which excited it, and pursues his way with resignation.

But the idea of relinquishing those delightful amusements and flattering attentions which wealth and equipage bestow is painful.

It seemed an "equipage etern" from which no power of fate or fortune, once mounted, had power thereafter to dislodge him.

Marshal Noailles, who has sent for his equipage hither, asked whether he should attend his Majesty, who replied, 'As you please,' rather curtly.