If we could look into his heart, we should find him at his accursed rehearsals again.

A few more lessons, and the blush and the shudder will pass away, never to return." This is tame enough in the recital.

But I dare say there are old men who will read these pages to whom it will bring back the never-forgotten scenes of more than fifty years ago.
The Doctor had a great gift of sententious speech, not only in his written discourses, but in his ordinary conversation or his instruction from the professor's chair.

He was speaking one day of Combe and of something disrespectful he had said about the English metaphysicians.

"What does Mr.Combe mean ?" said the Doctor.