Barry Pain

“ I am a tailor's dummy, and I am not happy, though I am undoubtedly handsome. Is it pleasant for one who, like myself, is of a reserved and retiring nature, to stand in a shop window and be stared at by a crowd of passers-by, many of them persons of defective education, low parentage, and abominable manners? ”

“ The one thing which makes me think she could ever melt is the care they take not to stand her in the sun.
To go on loving, without hope, and with the object of one's adoration daily before one's eyes—it is enough to drive one to suicide. ”

“ One does not wear one's heart on one's coat-sleeve; it is equally true that one does not wear it in one's head or neck. The boy in the sailor-suit has suggested that perhaps her heart is kept in the back-shop, like fish in the hot weather. ”