You're quite off the hinge.

What's the meaning of this new fad ?" And he tossed me, with visible irreverence, a drawing in which I happened to have depicted both my elegant models.

I asked if he didn't think it good, and he replied that it struck him as execrable, given the sort of thing I had always represented myself to him as wishing to arrive at; but I let that pass--I was so anxious to see exactly what he meant.

The two figures in the picture looked colossal, but I supposed this was not what he meant, inasmuch as, for aught he knew to the contrary, I might have been trying for some such effect.

I maintained that I was working exactly in the same way as when he last had done me the honour to tell me I might do something some day.