Part 13 (1/2)
”There you are, with your temptations--try to seduce ance--ious toleration, republican ideas, and the rights of woman!”
”Very well, Sir Asinus, I won't tempt you further; but I think it would be cheap for you to marry on any terms--if only to extricate yourself from your present difficulties Once e”
”Yes; but I wish to remain”
”What! in this attic?”
”Even so”
”A hermit?”
”Who said I was a hermit? I am surrounded with friends! Ned Carter co, all the while protesting undying friendshi+p, and asking me to write love verses for him Tom Randolph is a faithful friend and co silk which Belle-bouche adave me that--in return for my new suit of embroidered cloth Who says human nature is not disinterested?”
”Cynic!”
”Yes, I would be, were I not a Stoic”
”You are neither--you are an Epicurean”
”Granted: I am even an Apician”
”What's that? Who was Apicius?”
”There, now, you are shockingly ignorant; you really don't knohat _apis_ means in Sanscrit--bah!”
”In Sanscrit? True; but in Latin it is--”
”Bee: I'll help you out”
”Very well, you are an _Apician_, you say: expound”
”Why! do I not admire Belle-bouche?”
”I believe so”
”Pretty mouth--that is the translation?”
”Yes”
”A ? Yes: Sir John 'So it newly,' you know Well, Belle-bouche has honey lips--a beautiful idea--and bees love honey, and I love Belle-bouche: there's the syllogisicians say Q
E D, I aantic philological joke, to the great satisfaction of his friend, who caresses his sandy whiskers with still greater self-appreciation