Many would be glad to say the same at that age twice-told: they carry in their breasts a burden with which Adrian's was not loaded.

Mrs.Doria was nearly right about his heart.

A singular mishap (at his birth, possibly, or before it) had unseated that organ, and shaken it down to his stomach, where it was a much lighter, nay, an inspiring weight, and encouraged him merrily onward.

Throned there it looked on little that did not arrive to gratify it.

Already that region was a trifle prominent in the person of the wise youth, and carried, as it were, the flag of his philosophical tenets in front of him.