I'll make an effort, and offer them to some other publisher." Taggart took a double quantity of snuff.
Equally Sterne-like is the conclusion to a chapter: "Italy--what was I going to say about Italy ?" Less superficial is the influence of Cervantes and his successors of the Picaresque school, down to the last and most representative of them in England, namely Defoe and Smollett.

Profoundest of all, perhaps, is the influence of Defoe, of whose powers of intense realisation, exhibited in the best parts of _Robinson Crusoe_, we get a fine counterpart amid the outcasts in Mumper's Lane.

Bound up with the truthfulness and originality of the Author is that strange absence of sycophancy, which we may flatter ourselves is no exceptional thing, but which is in reality a very rare phenomenon in literature.
Apart from this independence of character which he so justly prized, and a monomania or two, such as his devotion to philology or detestation of popery, Borrow's mental peculiarities are not by any means so extravagant as has been supposed.

His tastes were for the most part not unusual, though they might be assorted in a somewhat uncommon manner.

He was a thorough sportsman in the best sense, but he combined with his sporting zeal an instinctive hatred of gambling, of bad language, and of tyranny or cruelty in any form.