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I fancy I really am: I tell you these things for nothing and

don't even expect a reward for it, he-he! Well, to proceed, wit

in my opinion is a splendid thing, it is, so to say, an adornment

of nature and a consolation of life, and what tricks it can play!

So that it sometimes is hard for a poor examining lawyer to know

where he is, especially when he's liable to be carried away by

his own fancy, too, for you know he is a man after all! But the

poor fellow is saved by the criminal's temperament, worse luck

for him! But young people carried away by their own wit don't

think of that 'when they overstep all obstacles,' as you wittily

and cleverly expressed it yesterday. He will lie--that is, the

man who is a _special case_, the incognito, and he will lie well,

in the cleverest fashion; you might think he would triumph and

enjoy the fruits of his wit, but at the most interesting, the

most flagrant moment he will faint. Of course there may be

illness and a stuffy room as well, but anyway!