text:  Coleridge the yet unknown criminal absolutely perspired and fumed in pleading for the defendant; the company demurred; the orator grew urgent; wits began to _smoke_ the case as active verbs; the advocate to _smoke_ as a neuter verb; the "fun grew fast and furious;" until at length _delinquent arose_ burning tears in his eyes and confessed to an audience (now bursting with stifled laughter but whom he supposed to be bursting with fiery indignation ) "Lo! I am he that wrote it