Or if nothing can be done with me, -- if what has been spent must be thrown away -- it is needless to throw away any more; it would be better for me to come home and settle down to the lot for which I seemed to be born.

Nothing can be gained by waiting longer, but much lost.
"I am not desponding, but seriously this transition life I am leading at present is not very enlivening.

I am neither one thing nor the other; I am in a chrysalis state, which is notoriously a dull one; and I have the further aggravation, which I suppose never occurs to the nymph _bona fide_, of a miserable uncertainty whether my folded-up wings are those of a purple butterfly or of a poor drudge of a beetle.

Besides, it is conceivable that the chrysalis may get weary of his case, and mine is not a silken one.

I have been here long enough.