'The person calling himself "Roy," whose monstrously absurd pretensions are supposed to be embodied in this self-dubbed surname . . .'
'—The celebrated and courtly Mr. Richmond Roy, known no less by the fascination of his manners than by his romantic history . . .'
'—has very soon succeeded in making himself the talk of the town . . '
'—has latterly become the theme of our tea-tables . . .'
'—which is always the adventurer's privilege . . .'
'—through no fault of his own . . '
'—That we may throw light on the blushing aspirations of a crow-sconced Cupid, it will be as well to recall the antecedents of this (if no worse) preposterous imitation buck of the old school . . .'
'—Suffice it, without seeking to draw the veil from those affecting chapters of his earlier career which kindled for him the enthusiastic sympathy of all classes of his countrymen, that he is not yet free from a tender form of persecution . . .'
'—We think we are justified in entitling him the Perkin Warbeck of society . . .'
'—Reference might be made to mythological heroes . . .'