[214] Erewhon, 153. Butler’s ability to deliver the casual nudge as well as the deliberate blow is shown in a feature of the prison régime; convict labor is required,—a trade already learned, if possible, otherwise—“if he be a gentleman born and bred to no profession, he must pick oakum, or write art criticisms for a newspaper.” 126.
[215] The Way of All Flesh, 26.
[216] Vanity Fair, I, 115.
[217] Vanity Fair, I, 128.
[218] Ibid., 192.
[219] Ibid., 255.
[220] Ibid., 110.
[221] Pendennis, II, 22.
[222] Mill on the Floss, I, 189.
[223] Middlemarch, I, 161. This book is also pervaded by the exuberant presence of the versatile but cautious Mr. Brooke, who had always “gone a good deal into that at one time,” but always wisely refrained from pushing it too far, as one never can tell where such things will lead.