Storms of applause, during which the plain, Quakerish-looking speaker subsided into her seat. As she did so, there might have been observed, under the flush of exultation which mantled her brow, a singular obliquity of the left eye! Ha! Etherial!

CHAPTER VIII.
INTRUSION.

’Tis he! I ken the manner of his gait—

He rises on the toe; that spirit of his

In aspiration lifts him from the earth.

Shakspeare.

A barren-spirited fellow! one that feeds

On objects, arts, and imitations.

Idem.

This is a slight, unmeritable man,