The book is a new face appealing to a mirror of the common surface emotions; and the kitchen rather than the dairy offers an analogy for the real value of that "top-skim." I have not seen what I consider good in the book once mentioned among the laudatory notices--except by your dear hand, my Emmy.

Be sure I will stand on guard against the "vaporous generalizations," and other "tricks" you fear.

Now that you are studying Latin for an occupation--how good and wise it was of Mr.Redworth to propose it!--I look upon you with awe as a classic authority and critic.
I wish I had leisure to study with you.

What I do is nothing like so solid and durable.
'THE PRINCESS EGERIA' originally (I must have written word of it to you--I remember the evening off Palermo!) was conceived as a sketch; by gradations she grew into a sort of semi-Scudery romance, and swelled to her present portliness.

That was done by a great deal of piecing, not to say puffing, of her frame.