"I suppose I have--changed a good deal." "No wonder.

I presume your views of immortality, the future state of the fair sex, and the application of transcendental analysis to matrimony, all changed about the same time ?" "Don't be unreasonable," he answered.

"It all dates from that evening when I had that singular fit and the vision I related to you.

I have never been the same man since; and I am glad of it.

I now believe women to be much more adorable than you painted them, and not half enough adored." Suddenly he dropped the extremely English manner which he generally affected in the idiom and construction of his speech, and dropped back into something more like his own language.