I, unfortunately, shall never do anything of any account,--but I know so well the conflict between diverging tastes.

It has played the deuce with me, in all sorts of ways.

At Zurich I utterly wasted my time, and I've done no better since I came back to England.

Don't think me presumptuous.

I only mean--well, it is so important to--to go ahead in one line.' His air of laughing apology was very pleasant.