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"A muffin and the Post, sir," said George to the Yorkshireman, on one of the fine fresh mornings that gently usher in the returning spring, and draw from the town-pent cits sighs for the verdure of the fields, as he placed the above mentioned articles on his usual breakfast table in the coffee-room of the "Piazza."
What were honey to me if I knew nothing of Hymettus and Hybla? if my mind had no stores of poetry, no memories of romance? Suppose me town-pent, the name might bring with it some pleasantness of rustic odour; but of what poor significance even that, if the country were to me mere grass and corn and vegetables, as to the man who has never read nor wished to read.
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