I always fancy people must be very little if they can be finished off so rapidly; if there was any real verve in them, they would take somewhat longer to grow.

Lord Chalk would do very well to bind in Russian leather, and put on one's library shelves, to be consulted when one forgot a date; but really even your Ulysses of a doctor--provided, of course, he turned out a prince in disguise, and don't leave out his h's--would be more to the taste of your naughtiest of sisters.".