A. But suppose the parties who read it have never seen the thing described?
B. Why then it won’t signify whether the description be correct or not.
A. You have taken a load off my mind; but still I am not quite at ease. I have engaged to furnish C with a fashionable novel.
B. What do you mean to imply by a fashionable novel?
A. I really can hardly tell. His stipulations were, that it was to be a “fashionable novel in three volumes, each volume not less than three hundred pages.”
B. That is to say, that you are to assist him in imposing on the public.
A. Something very like it, I’m afraid; as it is further agreed that it is to be puffed as coming from a highly talented nobleman.
B. You should not do it, Ansard.
A. So conscience tells me, but my tailor’s bill says Yes; and that is a thing out of all conscience. Only look here.
Displays a long bill.