"Get Blackwood's new number. There is a description of me in it: 'A
little, splay-footed, ugly dumpling of a fellow, with a mouth from
ear to ear.' Conceive how such a charge must affect a man so
enamoured of his own beauty as I am."
"After the debate I walked about the streets with Bulwer till near
three o'clock. I spoke to him about his novels with perfect
sincerity, praising warmly and criticising freely. He took the
praise as a greedy boy takes an apple-pie, and the criticism as a
good, dutiful boy takes senna-tea. At all events I shall expect him
to puff me well. I do not see why I should not have my puffers as
well as my neighbors."