[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER XIII 1/11
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NATUR'. In the course of our journey, the conversation turned upon the several series of the "Clockmaker" I had published, and their relative merits. Mr.Slick appeared to think they all owed their popularity mainly to the freshness and originality of character incidental to a new country. "You are in the wrong pew here, Squire," said he; "you are, upon my soul.
If you think to sketch the English in a way any one will stop to look at, you have missed a figur', that's all.
You can't do it nohow; you can't fix it.
There is no contrasts here, no variation of colours, no light and shade, no nothin'.
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