Galgenstein has quoted Euripides thrice, Plato
once, Lycophron nine times, besides extracts from the Latin syntax
and the minor Greek poets. Catherine's passionate embreathings are
of the most fashionable order; and I call upon the ingenious critic
of the X---- newspaper to say whether they do not possess the real
impress of the giants of the olden time--the real Platonic smack, in
a word? Not that I want in the least to show off; but it is as
well, every now and then, to show the public what one CAN do.
(* There WERE six columns, as mentioned by the accurate Mr.
Solomons; but we have withdrawn two pages and three-quarters,
because, although our correspondent has been excessively eloquent,
according to custom, we were anxious to come to the facts of the
story.
Mr. Solomons, by sending to our office, may have the cancelled
passages.--O.Y.)
Instead, however, of all this rant and nonsense, how much finer is
the speech that the Count really did make! "It is a very fine
evening,--egad it is!" The "egad" did the whole business: Mrs. Cat
was as much in love with him now as ever she had been; and,
gathering up all her energies, she said, "It is dreadful hot too, I
think;" and with this she made a curtsey.
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