Perceiving this assemblage, I cried, 'There they are!' Barely waiting to change my clothes, I made for this formidable body and endeavoured to conciliate it.

Almost every day I sit down among them and lie like a machine.
Privately I believe they should be hanged, but publicly I glisten with admiration.

Do you know, there is one of 'em who I know has not moved from the inn in eight days, and this morning I said to her, 'These long walks in the clear mountain air are doing you a world of good.' And I keep continually saying, 'Your frankness is so charming!' Because of the great law of universal balance, I know that this illustrious corps will believe good of themselves with exactly the same readiness that they will believe ill of others.

So I ply them with it.

In consequence, the worst they ever say of me is, 'Isn't that Mr.Hollanden a peculiar man ?' And you know, my boy, that's not so bad for a literary person." After some thought he added: "Good people, too.