The English Illustrated Magazine/”A Weak Imitation”

“A WEAK IMITATION.”
By LEONARD MERRICK.

Tuesday.
CABIN or intermediate? It is the question I have debated since I decided to return. New York declines to support me; nobody in London is awaiting me. Capital, translated into English money, twenty-five pounds—cabin or intermediate?
The brilliant adventurer of fiction who always finds it wise to be extravagant would not vacillate an instant; I know it. I know how that successful extravagance of his always warms my heart and fascinates me, so that I follow his impecunious career in hansoms with far more interest than the struggles of the hero whose notion of economy is to go in the omnibus. I know how I have admired him, and agreed with him, and rather pined between the paragraphs for a chance to be brilliant and adventurous too; but somehow, now the opening is here, I don't seem made for the part. I seem to incline to the hero's point of view which is narrow and commonplace. The opportunity is magnificent: twenty-five pounds, and no source of income when I land! Nothing could be finer! I see the adventurer in the situation to a semi-colon. (A reference would be made at such a crisis to his “irreproachable linen” and “faultless cloth

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