And there certainly _is_ a great deal of difference between the author of Lavengro and themselves--he retaining his principles and his brush; they with scarlet breeches on, it is true, but without their republicanism and their tails.

Oh, the writer can well afford to be vituperated by your pseudo-Radicals of '32! Some time ago the writer was set upon by an old Radical and his wife; but the matter is too rich not to require a chapter to itself..