And I am glad to be liked, and like in return very kindly.

So it proceeds; Laissez faire, laissez aller,—such is the watchword.

Well, I know there are thousands as pretty and hundreds as pleasant.

Girls by the dozen as good, and girls in abundance with polish

Higher and manners more perfect than Susan or Mary Trevellyn.

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition,—

Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

xii. Claude to Eustace.

But I am in for it now,—laissez faire, of a truth, laissez aller.

Yes, I am going,—I feel it, I feel and cannot recall it,—