No doubt your head aches, trying to make something of my description.

If there is here and there one that can make anything intelligible out of my talk about the Great Secret, and who has spelt out a syllable or two of it on some woman's face, dead or living, that is all I can expect.

One should see the person with whom he converses about such matters.

There are dreamy-eyed people to whom I should say all these things with a certainty of being understood;-- That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me To him my tale I teach.
-- I am afraid some of them have not got a spare quarter of a dollar for this August number, so that they will never see it.
-- Let us start again, just as if we had not made this ambitious attempt, which may go for nothing, and you can have your money refunded, if you will make the change.
This young girl, about whom I have talked so unintelligibly, is the unconscious centre of attraction to the whole solar system of our breakfast-table.

The Little Gentleman leans towards her, and she again seems to be swayed as by some invisible gentle force towards him.