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Page 1 of 11909 · PDF PAGE 5
…rks that I have hitherto had the glorious privilege of perusing. It is, by the way, my favourite pastime when I have, as we say in Fleet Street, the blunt to go down to Marlow or Maidenhead in a punt, and there lie in some shady favourite backwater with my favourite girl friend in front. What a thing friendship is, world without end ! and my favourite old black briar between my lips, and her sweet face fixed on my old favour- ite thumb-worn copy of Sappho, and pore over the deevie pages, hour after hour, bound by the Womans Guild. No !…
1909 · PDF PAGE 4
…us mutuam In cubili si te futuam. Non ero mala Cassandra, Alexandra ! Alexandra !1 Mrs Coxs Latinity is sometimes not quite up to Fleet Street mark : and these lines are decidedly not regular hexameters : Professor Jibb, to whom I submitted the point, was quite at one with me upon it, after a days consideration. But the acros- tic is beautifully carried out : and the sentiment is throughout loyal, enthusiastic, generous, delicate, forceful, noble, svelte, admirable, delicate, rever- ently amorous, respectfully familiar (Mrs Cox is in the very…
1909 · PDF PAGE 2
…f last year, as the orangegold clouds of deliciously perfumed mist stole, in spite of the Eighth com- mandment, down my chimney in Fleet Street ; [of course Diaper does not live in a chimney : she has a deevie flat there and the flat has a chimney, two chimneys, in fact, O.C.) myav thister litafir ? Woman ! I replied sternly, whence came it ? My practised eye had already detected the inde- scribable cachet of a treasure trove bene trovato, sin non veri similitudo ! as the immortal Mantuan bardic anarch hath it ah ! dear, dear old Dante ! …
1909 · PDF PAGE 3
…masterpiece ; alas ! too incomplete ! to the World of Society, though even the humblest may enjoy (A navvy, when they were repairing the street, whom I asked up to taste my delicious T. I think the ab- breviation is so clever, dont you ? and to whom I had read it, said : B...y good, miss, b...y good . A simple heartfelt tribute from the People). Alas ! too incomplete. But something at least is saved, honour, which if you remember was all Sir George got out of King Francis great lion at the battle of Pavium you have read Mrs Brownin…