With that bad taste which characterizes the victims of this delusion,
he could not consent to supply the place of the chosen object of his
love with any other image; and even regarded the classic and
romantic Miss Sallianna as wholly unworthy to supplant Redbud in his
affections. Youth is proverbially unreasonable and fastidious on these
subjects, and Verty, with the true folly of a young man, could not
discern in Miss Sallianna those thousand graces and attractions,
linguistic, philosophical, historical and scientific, which made her
so far superior to the child with whom he had played, and committed
the folly of falling in love with. So he went along sighing, with his
arms hanging down, as we have said, and his shoulders drooping; and in
this melancholy guise, reached the office of Judge Rushton.
He found Mr. Roundjacket still driving away with his pen, only
stopping at intervals to flourish his ruler, or to cast an
affectionate glance upon the MS. of his great poem, which, gracefully
tied with red tape arranged in a magnificent bow, lay by him on the
desk.
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