babel-high

Updated: June 21, 2025

Yet I was not selfish, Monsieur. Building up in dreams my fortune Babel-high, I built up also ever the fortune of John Meavy and his peerless wife to a point just as near the clouds. Eh, bien! it amounted to nothing in the end, all this; but I was not selfish!

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861