* * * * *

"The house-full of Toadies and Humbugs. They all know and despise one
another; but--partly to keep their hands in, and partly to make out
their own individual cases--pretend not to detect one another."

* * * * *

"People realising immense sums of money,
imaginatively--speculatively--counting their chickens before hatched.
Inflaming each other's imaginations about great gains of money, and
entering into a sort of intangible, impossible, competition as to who is
the richer."

* * * * *

"The advertising sage, philosopher, and friend: who educates 'for the
bar, the pulpit, or the stage.'"

* * * * *

"The character of the real refugee--not the conventional; the real."

* * * * *

"The mysterious character, or characters, interchanging confidences.
'Necessary to be very careful in that direction.'--'In what
direction?'--'B'--'You don't say so. What, do you mean that C----?'--'Is
aware of D. Exactly.'"

"The father and boy, as I dramatically see them. Opening with the wild
dance I have in my mind."

* * * * *

"The old child. That is to say, born of parents advanced in life, and
observing the parents of other children to be young. Taking an old tone
accordingly."

* * * * *

"A thoroughly sulky character--perverting everything. Making the good,
bad--and the bad, good."

* * * * *

"The people who lay all their sins negligences and ignorances, on
Providence."

* * * * *

"The man who marries his cook at last, after being so desperately
knowing about the sex."

* * * * *

"The swell establishment, frightfully mean and miserable in all but the
'reception rooms.' Those very showy."

* * * * *

"B. tells M. what my opinion is of his work, &c. Quoting the man you
have once spoken to as if he had talked a life's talk in two minutes."

* * * * *

"A misplaced and mis-married man; always, as it were, playing hide and
seek with the world; and never finding what Fortune seems to have hidden
when he was born."

"Certain women in Africa who have lost children, carry little wooden
images of children on their heads, and always put their