To get it on a yacht and drop it overboard, was more conceivable; but for a man of moderate means it seemed extravagant.

The hire of the yacht was in itself a consideration; the subsequent support of the whole crew (which seemed a necessary consequence) was simply not to be thought of.

His uncle and the houseboat here occurred in very luminous colours to his mind.

A musical composer (say, of the name of Jimson) might very well suffer, like Hogarth's musician before him, from the disturbances of London.

He might very well be pressed for time to finish an opera--say the comic opera Orange Pekoe--Orange Pekoe, music by Jimson--'this young maestro, one of the most promising of our recent English school'-- vigorous entrance of the drums, etc .-- the whole character of Jimson and his music arose in bulk before the mind of Gideon.