“I’d like to wear this in London. But I shall want an evening dress, sha’n’t I?”
She smiled at him. His heart overflowed and colored the workings of his mind with a full humor. He thought:
“If there be ideas, how better can they be expressed than in terms of Matilda?”
V
IN THE SWIM
Whoever has an ambition to be heard in a crowd must press, and squeeze, and thrust, and climb, with indefatigable pains, till he has exalted himself to a certain degree of altitude above them.
A TALE OF A TUB