be nothing else henceforth!

Mark on that nose the colour left by too copious port and viands;
to which the profuse cravat with exorbitant breastpin, and the
fixed, forward, and as it were menacing glance of the eyes
correspond. That is a 'Man of Business;' prosperous
manufacturer, house-contractor, engineer, law-manager; his eye,
nose, cravat have, in such work and fortune, got such a
character: deny him not thy praise, thy pity. Pity him too, the
Hard-handed, with bony brow, rudely combed hair, eyes looking out
as in labour, in difficulty and uncertainty; rude mouth, the
lips coarse, loose, as in hard toil and lifelong fatigue they
have got the habit of hanging:--hast thou seen aught more
touching than the rude intelligence, so cramped, yet energetic,
unsubduable, true, which looks out of that marred visage? Alas,
and his poor wife, with her own hands, washed that cotton
neckcloth for him, buttoned that coarse shirt, sent him forth
creditably trimmed as she could. In such imprisonment lives he,
for his part; man cannot now deliver him: the red pulpy infant
has been baked and fashioned so.

Or what kind of baking was it that this other brother-mortal got,
which has baked him into the genus Dandy? Elegant Vacuum;
serenely looking down upon all Plenums and Entities, as low and
poor to his serene Chimeraship and _Non_entity laboriously
attained! Heroic Vacuum; inexpugnable, while purse and present
condition of society hold out; curable by no hellebore. The
doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-
glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy
yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood,
undeliverable; it is thy doom.

And all these, we say, were red-coloured infants; of the same
pulp and stuff, few years ago; now irretrievably shaped and
kneaded as we see! Formulas? There is no mortal extant, out of
the depths of Bedlam, but lives all skinned, thatched, covered
over with Formulas; and is, as it were, held in from delirium
and the Inane by his Formulas! They are withal the most
beneficent, indispensable of human equipments: blessed he who
has a skin and tissues, so it be a living one, and the heart-
pulse everywhere discernible through it. Monachism, Feudalism,
with a real King Plantagenet, with real Abbots Samson, and their
other living realities, how blessed!--

Not without a mournful interest have we surveyed this authentic
image