But a truce to reflection! I remembered you the moment I saw you, though you are surprisingly grown.
How is my friend MacGrawler ?--still hard at work for 'The Asinaeum' ?" "I believe so," said Paul, sullenly, and hastening to change the conversation; "but tell me, Mr.Tomlinson, how came you hither?
I heard you had gone down to the North of England to fulfil a lucrative employment." "Possibly! The world always misrepresents the actions of those who are constantly before it." "It is very true," said Paul; "and I have said the same thing myself a hundred times in 'The Asinaeum,' for we were never too lavish of our truths in that magnificent journal.

'T is astonishing what a way we made three ideas go." "You remind me of myself and my newspaper labours," rejoined Augustus Tomlinson.

"I am not quite sure that I had so many as three ideas to spare; for, as you say, it is astonishing how far that number may go, properly managed.

It is with writers as with strolling players,--the same three ideas that did for Turks in one scene do for Highlanders in the next; but you must tell me your history one of these days, and you shall hear mine." "I should be excessively obliged to you for your confidence," said Paul, "and I doubt not but your life must be excessively entertaining.

Mine, as yet, has been but insipid.