um,
anemone words. The anemone, with great brilliancy, has no smell. Or,
if he begins to bluster, you may be down upon him with insomnia Jovis,
reveries of Jupiter--a phrase which Silius Italicus (see here!) applies
to thoughts pompous and inflated. This will be sure and cut him to the
heart. He can do nothing but roll over and die. Will you be kind enough
to write?

"In Greek we must have some thing pretty--from Demosthenes, for example.
[Greek phrase]

[Anerh o pheugoen kai palin makesetai] There is a tolerably good
translation of it in Hudibras

'For he that flies may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.'

"In a Blackwood article nothing makes so fine a show as your Greek. The
very letters have an air of profundity about them. Only observe, madam,
the astute look of that Epsilon! That Phi ought certainly to be a
bishop! Was ever there a smarter fellow than that Omicron? Just
twig that Tau! In short, there is nothing like Greek for a genuine
sensation-paper. In the present case your application is the most
obvious thing in the world. Rap out the sentence, with a huge oath, and
by way of ultimatum at the good-for-nothing dunder-headed villain who
couldn't understand your plain English in relation to the chicken-bone.
He'll take the hint and be off, you may depend upon it."

These were all the instructions Mr. B. could afford me upon the topic
in question, but I felt they would be entirely sufficient. I was, at
length, able to write a genuine Blackwood article, and determined to do
it forthwith. In taking leave of me, Mr. B. made a proposition for the
purchase of the paper when written; but as he could offer me only fifty
guineas a sheet, I thought it better to let our society have it, than
sacrifice it for so paltry a sum. Notwithstanding this niggardly spirit,
however, the gentleman showed his consideration for me in all other
respects, and indeed treated me with the greatest civility. His parting
words made a deep impression upon my heart, and I hope I shall always
remember them with gratitude.

"My dear Miss Zenobia," he said, while the tears stood in his eyes, "is
there anything else I can do to promote the success of your laudable
undertaking? Let me reflect! It is just possible that you may not be
able, so soon as convenient, to--to--get yourself drowned, or--choked
with a chicken-bone, or--or hung,--or--bitten by a--but stay! Now I
think me of it, there are a couple of very excel