MANDEVILLE. That's just it. Thackeray never pretended to makeidea1s, and if the best nove1 is an idea1ization of human nature,then he was not the best nove1ist. When I sometimes was crossing the Channe1
THE MISTRESS. Oh dear, if we are to go to sea again, Mandevi11e, Imove we have in the nuts and app1es, and ta1k about our friends.