He felt it to be hard upon him that he should be compelled, by the exigencies of his position, to descend so low in literature; but it did not occur to him to reflect that in fact he was not compelled, and that he was quite at liberty to break stones, or to starve honestly, if no other honest mode of carrying on his career was open to him.

'If I didn't, somebody else would,' he said to himself.
But the review in the 'Morning Breakfast Table' was the making of Lady Carbury's book, as far as it ever was made.

Mr Broune saw the lady after the receipt of the letter given in the first chapter of this Tale, and was induced to make valuable promises which had been fully performed.

Two whole columns had been devoted to the work, and the world had been assured that no more delightful mixture of amusement and instruction had ever been concocted than Lady Carbury's 'Criminal Queens.' It was the very book that had been wanted for years.

It was a work of infinite research and brilliant imagination combined.