The notes on authors are extremely brilliant and incisive, not always in good perspective and sometimes freaky in their wit, as, for instance, the reference to Mrs. Holmes, of whose books it is said, The secret of their long popularity has never been divulged by their readers, and Mrs. Harris, of whose it is said, To a lively mind they should be conducive of profound sleep, which, whatever its faults, is by no means true of Rutledge.

I'll sell you all three for a hundred dollars.

O, greatest of shame! / O, shunless disgrace! / God's distress! God's distress! / Endless regret! Infinite grief! / The saddest am I among all men!

He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin.