they really are...

damn it all, they are beyond words! And what a lot of humour you've packed into it; it made me laugh! How you can make fun of things _sans que cela paraisse!_ As for the ninth and tenth chapters, it's all about love; that's not my line, but it's effective though.

I was nearly blubbering over Egrenev's letter, though you've shown him up so cleverly....

You know, it's touching, though at the same time you want to show the false side of him, as it were, don't you?
Have I guessed right?
But I could simply beat you for the ending.
For what are you setting up?
Why, the same old idol of domestic happiness, begetting children and making money; 'they were married and lived happy ever afterwards'-- come, it's too much! You will enchant your readers, for even I couldn't put the book down; but that makes it all the worse! The reading public is as stupid as ever, but it's the duty of sensible people to wake them up, while you...

But that's enough.
Good-bye.