People believe that a new delight has come, a new joy for ever, and then find that the joy is not quite so perfect or enduring as they had expected.

But the commencement of such enterprises may be taken as a measure of what will follow.

The magazine, either by Thackeray's name or by its intrinsic merits,--probably by both,--achieved a great success.
My acquaintance with him grew from my having been one of his staff from the first.
About two months before the opening day I wrote to him suggesting that he should accept from me a series of four short stories on which I was engaged.

I got back a long letter in which he said nothing about my short stories, but asking whether I could go to work at once and let him have a long novel, so that it might begin with the first number.

At the same time I heard from the publisher, who suggested some interesting little details as to honorarium.