He knew well how difficult it
was for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. They had the highest
possible authority for that. But Scriptures never said that the camel,
which, as he explained it, was simply a thread larger than ordinary
thread, could not go through the needle's eye. The camel which succeeded,
in spite of the difficulties attending its exalted position, would be
peculiarly blessed. And he went on to suggest that the three ladies before
him, one of whom was about to enter upon a new phase of life to-morrow,
under auspices peculiarly propitious, were, all of them, camels of this
description. Sir Griffin, when he came in, received for a while the
peculiar attention of Mr. Emilius. "I think, Sir Griffin," he commenced,
"that no period of a man's life is so blessed, as that upon which you will
enter to-morrow." This he said in a whisper, but it was a whisper audible
to the ladies.
"Well, yes; it's all right, I dare say," said Sir Griffin.
"Well, after all, what is life till a man has met and obtained the partner
of his soul? It is a blank, and the blank becomes every day more and more
intolerable to the miserable solitary.
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