text:  How astonished you will be--we say how astonished you _will_ be--if in the fulness of time our title shall dignify the title-page; when it might appear that by the pen of a peer these papers were made apparent; when instead of the sort of person you have chosen to imagine your caterer for the good things of fashionable life in London you may discern to your dismay that a lord--a real lord alive and kicking has made a Bude-light of himself illuminating the shadows of your ignorance: you may read a preparatory memoir informing you how these ideas of ours were collected in a coach and four and transmitted to paper in a study overlooking the Green Park; with paper velvet-like and golden pen ruby-headed upon rose-wood desk inlaid with ivory you may find that these essays have been transcribed: you will grovel you will slaver you will rub your nose in the pebbles like a salmon at spawning-time when this very immortal work shall come out clothed in purple morocco our arms emblazoned on the covers and coroneted on the back after the manner of publication of the works of royal and noble authors