I remember the man perfectly.' 'Navvy or none,' said the colonel, 'he has just the longest head and the noblest heart of any man I ever met.

If he does not distinguish himself before he dies, I know nothing of human nature.' 'Ah yes, I believe he is clever enough!--took a good degree, a better one than I did--but horribly eclectic; full of mesmerism, and German metaphysics, and all that sort of thing.

I heard of him one night last spring, on which he had been seen, if you will believe it, going successively into a Swedenborgian chapel, the Garrick's Head, and one of Elliotson's magnetic soirees.

What can you expect after that ?' 'A great deal,' said Bracebridge drily.

'With such a head as he carries on his shoulders the man might be another Mirabeau, if he held the right cards in the right rubber.