I would neither solicit nor accept a peerage. I would not go into Parliament. I would take no part whatever in what is called public life, farther than to give my vote at an election against a Whig, or against any one who would give his in favour of the Catholic Question.
I would not wear my coat quite so threadbare as I do at present: but I would still keep to my old shoes, as long as they would keep to me.
But stop—Cleopatra adopted some wizard's words when she said “Wishers were ever fools!”
CHAPTER CCXXII.
ETYMOLOGY.—UN TOUR DE MAÎTRE GONIN.—ROMAN DE VAUDEMONT AND THE LETTER C.—SHENSTONE.—THE DOCTOR'S USE OF CHRISTIAN NAMES.
Πρᾶγμα, πρᾶγμα μέγα κεκίνηται, μέγα.
ARISTOPHANES.