"But it isn't that that I mean.

I can't wish old Sunday's balloon to burst because--" "Well," said Syme impatiently, "because ?" "Well, because he's so jolly like a balloon himself," said Dr.Bull desperately.

"I don't understand a word of all that idea of his being the same man who gave us all our blue cards.

It seems to make everything nonsense.

But I don't care who knows it, I always had a sympathy for old Sunday himself, wicked as he was.