..., comforting the sick, darning a stocking, rocking the cradle, singing to himself, and talking to the baby, all at once,--is a character in which the earnestness of Uncle Tom and the jollity of Mark Tapley are blended. That scene at the bedside of his mistress, and his dialogue with Fanny, wherein revival preaching is so finely criticised, and his famous lecture to the young ladies on their manners, ...