"Your life, lady, will be a troubled one—full of hopes and fears!"
"So I suppose; most people's lives are pretty well divided in this manner."
"But not so much as yours will be.... First, you are without father or mother?... Without fortune, too?"
"True, what more?"
"You will be married and not married."
"That's impossible. What can you mean by married and not married?"
"That deserves another shilling!"
"No; I only want a shillingsworth, ... that will do for to-day."
"Mdlle. Lagrange's Manuscript" was bound in blue morocco leather, and the term "Empress of Morocco" may have a reference to a literary ambition, as has the "Shakspeare's Day, I declare!" passage.