They were ladies so aspiring, these daughters of the merchant Samuel Bolton Pole, that, if Napoleon had been their brother, their imaginations would have overtopped him after his six months' inaction in the Tuileries.

They would by that time have made a stepping-stone of the emperor.

'Mounting' was the title given to this proceeding.

They went on perpetually mounting.

It is still a good way from the head of the tallest of men to the stars; so they had their work before them; but, as they observed, they were young.