| Luckily there is another cant to the questy. Has any fellow, of | 1 |
| the dime a dozen type, it might with some profit some dull even- | 2 |
ing quietly be hinted has any usual sort of ornery josser, flat- | 3 |
| chested fortyish, faintly flatulent and given to ratiocination by | 4 |
| syncopation in the elucidation of complications,of his greatest | 5 |
| Fung Yang dynasdescendanced,only another the son of, in fact, | 6 |
| ever looked sufficiently longly at a quite everydaylooking stamped | 7 |
| addressed envelope? Admittedly it is an outer husk: its face, in | 8 |
| all its featureful perfection of imperfection, is its fortune: it ex- | 9 |
| hibits only the civil or military clothing of whatever passion- | 10 |
| pallid nudity or plaguepurple nakedness may happen to tuck it- | 11 |
| self under its flap. Yet to concentrate solely on the literal sense or | 12 |
| even the psychological content of any document to the sore | 13 |
| neglect of the enveloping facts themselves circumstantiating it is | 14 |
| just as hurtful to sound sense (and let it be added to the truest | 15 |
| taste) as were some fellow in the act of perhaps getting an intro | 16 |
| from another fellow turning out to be a friend in need of his, say, | 17 |
| to a lady of the latter's acquaintance, engaged in performing the | 18 |
| elaborative antecistral ceremony of upstheres, straightaway to run | 19 |
| off and vision her plump and plain in her natural altogether, pre- | 20 |
| ferring to close his blinkhard's eyes to the ethiquethical fact that | 21 |
| she was, after all, wearing for the space of the time being some | 22 |
| definite articles of evolutionary clothing, inharmonious creations, | 23 |
| a captious critic might describe them as, or not strictly necessary | 24 |
| or a trifle irritating here and there, but for all that suddenly full | 25 |
| of local colour and personal perfume and suggestive, too, of so | 26 |
| very much more and capable of being stretched, filled out, if need | 27 |
| or wish were, of having their surprisingly like coincidental parts | 28 |
| separated don't they now, for better survey by the deft hand of | 29 |
| an expert, don't you know? Who in his heart doubts either that | 30 |
| the facts of feminine clothiering are there all the time or that the | 31 |
| feminine fiction, stranger than the facts, is there also at the same | 32 |
| time, only a little to the rere? Or that one may be separated from | 33 |
| the other? Or that both may then be contemplated simultaneously? | 34 |
| Or that each may be taken up and considered in turn apart from | 35 |
| the other? | 36 |