Consult yourself first--and nobody second.

Consider this orange--I am fond of oranges and they suit my constitution admirably.

Consider the difficulty I have had in procuring it at this time of year--not in the wretched condition in which they are sold in the market, plucked half green in Spain or Italy and ripened on the voyage in the fermenting heat of the decay of those which are already rotten--but ripe from the tree and brought to me directly by the shortest and quickest means possible.

Consider this orange, I say.

Do you vainly imagine that if I had but two or three like it I would offer you one ?" "I would not be so rash as to imagine anything of the kind, my dear Keyork.