A DISENCHANTMENT
Northern Crœsus. "Oh! I'm so glad to meet you here, Mr. Vandyke Brown. The fact is, I've a commission for you!"
Our Youthful Landscape Painter (dissembling his rapture). "All right—most happy—what is it to be?"
Northern Crœsus. "Well—my aged grandmother is going to London by this train—and I want to put her under your protection."
[Our Youthful Landscape Painter dissembles again.
