She felt as if she could have borne almost anything but thisthe idea of her father vaporing before a picture of the Madonna.

" Writing to William and Dorothy Wordsworth on September 28, 1805, Lamb remarked regarding his literary plans:"Sometimes I think of a farcebut hitherto all schemes have gone off,an idle brag or two of an evening vaporing out of a pipe, and going off in the morningbut now I have bid farewell to my 'Sweet Enemy' Tobacco, as you will see in my next page, I perhaps shall set soberly to work.

But these South Carolina economists are better at vaporing than at calculation.

You are constantly vaporing to me about Louis XII.