Or the countess, about whom he nearly had the duel with Prince Witikind of Bavaria?
Perhaps you haven't even heard about that beautiful girl at Pentonville, daughter of a most respectable Dissenting clergyman.

She broke her heart when she found he was engaged (to a most lovely creature of high family, who afterwards proved false to him), and she's now in Hanwell.' Waggle's belief in his friend amounts to frantic adoration.

'What a genius he is, if he would but apply himself!' he whispers to me.

'He could be anything, sir, but for his passions.

His poems are the most beautiful things you ever saw.