To speed, to give—to want to be undone.
It is a case, in short, where we gain point by omitting it.
44.
Miss Edgeworth seems to have had only an approximate comprehension of “Fashion,” for she says:
“If it was the fashion to burn me, and I at the stake, I hardly know ten persons of my acquaintance who would refuse to throw on a faggot.”
There are many who, in such a case, would “refuse to throw on a faggot”—for fear of smothering out the fire.
45.
I am beginning to think with Horsely—that “the People have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.”
46.
“It is not fair to review my book without reading it,” says Mr. M——, talking at the critics, and, as usual, expecting impossibilities. The man who is clever enough to write such a work, is clever enough to read it, no doubt; but we should not look for so much talent in the world at large. Mr. M—— will not imagine that I mean to blame him. The book alone is in fault, after all. The fact is, that “er lasst sich nicht lesen”—it will not permit itself to be read. Being a hobby of Mr. M——’s, and brimful of spirit, it will let nobody mount it but Mr. M——.