The movement of humanity, arising as it does from innumerable arbitrary human
wills, is continuous.
Not backward can the
Will will; that it cannot break time and time's desire--that is the
Will's lonesomest tribulation.
It appears from the
will that you worked this disinterested gag, whatever it was, at Marvis Bay no longer ago than last year.
It
will, however, be necessary to talk a little of young Hal so that you
will get into the spirit of it.
Another pleasure was to let him help clear away, as they used to do at home, while the peals of laughter that always accompanied this performance did Miss Mills' heart good to hear, for the room was so small and
Will so big that he seemed to be everywhere at once, and Polly and Puttel were continually dodging his long arms and legs.
Give good hearing to those, that give the first information in business; and rather direct them in the beginning, than interrupt them in the continuance of their speeches; for he that is put out of his own order,
will go forward and backward, and be more tedious, while he waits upon his memory, than he could have been, if he had gone on in his own course.
Its difficulty was much enhanced by the mode of publication; for, it would be very unreasonable to expect that many readers, pursuing a story in portions from month to month through nineteen months,
will, until they have it before them complete, perceive the relations of its finer threads to the whole pattern which is always before the eyes of the story-weaver at his loom.
In the first number Steele announced that:--"All accounts of gallantry, pleasure and entertainment, shall be under the article of White's Chocolate-House; Poetry under that of
Wills' Coffee- House; learning under the title of Grecian; foreign and domestic news you
will have from Saint James's Coffee-House; and what else I have to offer on any other subject shall be dated from my own apartment.
And then I asked him `Do you think, to such a degree that it
will urge him to act contrary to the designs of his eminence?
No, sir, I
will not," said Mary, more resolutely still.
He
will be always in evidence; always with those letters in the background.
Look here, Bunny," Daylight demanded, "which is right, I shall be over to look that affair up on Monday, or I
will be over to look that affair up on Monday?
