That such a young person could possibly have a morbid vacancy in the heart for anything younger than the plate, or less monotonous than the plate; or that such a young person’s thoughts could try to scale the region bounded on the north, south, east, and west, by the plate; was a monstrous imagination which he would on the spot have flourished into space. This perhaps in some sort arose from Mr. Podsnap’s blushing young person being, so to speak, all cheek: whereas there is a possibility that there may be young persons of a rather more complex organization. If Mr. Podsnap, pulling up his
