This is a new principle, a discovery, a great discovery,' said the gentleman. 'Now, I'll try you again. Suppose you were going to carpet a room. Would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers upon it?'There being a general conviction by this time that 'No, sir!' was always the right answer to this gentleman, the chorus of NO was very strong.

Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes: among them Sissy Jupe.'Girl number twenty,' said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge.Sissy blushed, and stood up.'So you would carpet your room-or your husband's room, if you were a grown woman, and had a husband-with representations of flowers, would you?' said the gentleman. 'Why would you?''If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers,' returned the girl.'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?''It wouldn't hurt them, sir.

They wouldn't crush and wither, if you please, sir. They would be the pictures of what was very pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy-''Ay, ay, ay!

But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point. 'That's it! You are never to fancy.''You are not, Cecilia Jupe,' Thomas Gradgrind solemnly repeated, 'to do anything of that kind.''Fact, fact, fact!' said the gentleman. And 'Fact, fact, fact!' repeated Thomas Gradgrind.'You are to be in all things regulated and governed,' said the gentleman, 'by fact.

We hope to have, before long, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact.

You must discard the word Fancy altogether. You have nothing to do with it.