The Arresting Power of Beauty.
"You dreamed of someone with whiskers who made your heart stop beating in your tiny waist every time he looked at you."—Home Notes.
"General, good plain cook; £45; flat, Maida Vale; constant hot water."—Times.
But why tell the poor woman beforehand?
"It recalls the distressing aphorism:
'Life is real, life is earnest,
And things are not what they seem.'"
Liverpool Post and Mercury.
For example, this may seem like a quotation from the "Psalm of Life," but it isn't.