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and truth! governing and law-making will only be matters of experiment. Make verses on the subject, man, and publish them; that will be another experiment.

Nay, how far rhyme without reason will succeed, is no new experiment.

But there will be reason in it, if thou dost not mar it with thy rhyme.

Welcome, Brightly; you will help me to deal with this moody man here. Have you any news to tell that may amuse us?

To be sure I have. The learned phrenologist has suddenly disappeared from his lodgings; and Miss Vane and her niece are preparing to set off for town.

Who told you this? It cannot be true: the last part of the story cannot be true.

Yet that is just the part of it that I am most