By turns, and occasionally as it were by spontaneous connascence, were reflected on her speaking countenance, as on the clear and smooth surface of a bright mirror, the quick intelligence of a clever woman and the touching simplicity of an unsophisticated child, the vigorous energy of a heroine and the fascinating playfulness of a little fairy, the depth of mind that can penetrate and analyse everything and the inquisitiveness of heart to which all sensations are novel and interesting.

[bold in original] Comics is the word worth defining, as it refers to the medium itself, not a specific object as comic book or comic strip do."

Along the banks of the Georgina are alternate patches of old-man scrub and strips of plain country.

He vaunts his voice upon an hired stage, With high-set steps and princely carriage, Now souping in side robes of royalty.