But you've no right to go by particular cases in these matters.

You ought to go by the general rule, as I constantly tell him.

'Yes,' says he, in that smiling way of his which does put me almost beside myself, 'yes, you shall go by the general rule, and let people starve; and I'll go by particular cases, and feed 'em.' Then he is just as rich as if he were an old flint like Van Boozenberg.

Well, it is the funniest, foggiest sort of world.

I swear I don't see into it at all--I give it all up.