And if literature is not the Bride and Bedfellow of Truth, what is she? 'Confound it all.' he cried, 'why say Bedfellow when one's already said Bride? Why not simply say what one means and save it?

“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the sembla…”

“The young man had killed himself; but she did not pity him; with the clock stri…”

“This late age of the world’s experience had bred in them all, all men and women…”

“Such are the visions which proffer great cornucopias full of fruit to the solit…”