steamboat puddings compressed within the compass of
a thimble, exclusive of the sauce; chocolates, oceans of which lay in
mimic lakes, each of which the bill of a humming-bird might expand;
tongues of most melodious singing birds--the nightingale, the thrush,
and the goldfinch; lambs _en supreme_, each eliminated of earthly
particles, and spiritualized in scarcely tangible results. Over all
hovered the memories of exquisite beverages, which became realities when
you approached, and stole over the sense with insidious deliciousness.

These, too, faded away amid the disregard of their owner, though the
odalisque shed floods of tears of disappointment; and others succeeded,
but they tempted Roseton vainly, and a glance at the clock showed that
it was now ten o'clock by New Haven time. At this moment the Rev. George
Langford experienced another biological sensation; Roseton had conceived
a breakfast.

Repairing to a battery in a recess of his laboratory, Langford
attentively studied the ebullitions occasioned by an ultimate dilution
and aggregation of the chemicals in the formula HP + O^(22). During this
time the sensations in his brain successively continued to rack and
agonize him; but, faithful to his mission, he remained immersed in
thought until his intellect grasped the key of the problem. Issuing then
from the recess, he promulgated the results of his investigation to the
four masters of the house, These, with the aid of the forty-eight
deputies, executed the inchoate idea, and once more--and finally--the
pyramid unfolded. But now a single table appeared, bearing upon its
snowy mantle a Yarmouth bloater, and a bottle of Dublin stout. Roseton's
eyes lighted up with unaccustomed pleasure, and he gave instant commands
for the duplication of the salary of his esteemed attendant-in-chief.

In accordance with the custom of the house, the morning journals now
appeared; and here the fancy of Roseton had therein a living and
distinctive character over each. Youths, of perfect beauty, who had,
during the three previous hours, diligently studied the sheets in
question, passed before him, one by one, dressed in appropriate costume,
and each one delivered to him in mental short-hand the entire contents
of the journal which he represented. These were rendered wholly in the
Sanscrit tongue, in which Roseton was an adept; with the exception of
the _Tribune_, the language of which, Roseton was accustomed to say, is
unique, and inc