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  • ‘Well, what of it?’

    ‘It wouldn’t be our fault, would it, with a crazy fellow like that?’
    But he was very anxious, for he was still too cold headed himself to give in to this mass hysteria. Also his pride as a leader was hurt as he saw the mob slipping out of his control and doing wild things far [...]

  • Thus, my dear and civilised reader,

    if you and I were to find ourselves this evening in the society of greengrocers, let us say, it is probable that our conversation would not be brilliant; if, on the other hand, a greengrocer should find himself at your refined and polite tea-table, where everybody was saying witty things, and everybody of fashion and [...]

  • The Penny

    And do not let my reader exclaim against this selfishness as unnatural. It was but this present morning, as he rode on the omnibus from Richmond; while it changed horses, this present chronicler, being on the roof, marked three little children playing in a puddle below, very dirty, and friendly, and happy. To these three [...]

  • But Oh, Mesdames,

    if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably.
    - Vanity Fair, Ch.XII p.131