But," said I, "to be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society. I condition for nothing else, but without music, life would be a blank to me.

“Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These ar…”

“I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegan…”

“Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the…”

“Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.”