PROFESSOR RUBEK.
[Decisively.]
I alone can see it. And it amuses me unspeakably.--On the surface I give them the “striking likeness,” as they call it, that they all stand and gape at in astonishment--[Lowers his voice]--but at bottom they are all respectable, pompous horse-faces, and self-opinionated donkey-muzzles, and lop-eared, low-browed dog-skulls, and fatted swine-snouts--and sometimes dull, brutal bull-fronts as well--