the Ten Commandments in succession (always, you will observe, for some
sublime motive, which must be carefully analysed in its progress), I
have as amiable a pair of tragic characters as ever issued from that
new region of the belles lettres, which I have called the Morbid
Anatomy of Black Bile, and which is greatly to be admired and rejoiced
at, as affording a fine scope for the exhibition of mental power.


MR HILARY

Which is about as well employed as the power of a hothouse would be in
forcing up a nettle to the size of an elm. If we go on in this way, we
shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will
be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine
and music in the world.


THE HONOURABLE MR LISTLESS

It seems to be the case with us at present, or we should not have
interrupted Miss O'Carroll's music with this exceedingly dry
conversation.


MR FLOSKY

I should be most happy if Miss O'Carroll would remind us that there
are yet both music and sunshine--