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He was blessed, too, with a pleasant belief in his acceptance with the fair sex, but had a real one with his comrades, who knew his absurdities and his virtues, and laughed at and loved him. 'But hang it, there 'th no uthe in doing things by halves. Melpomene's the most jealous of the Muses.

Of the gun-room and its horrors you'll have formed if lads still read their Marryat nowadays your own conception; and I will only say that it probably bears the same relation to the Melpomene's gun-room as chalk to cheese. The Melpomene's gun-room was low so low that Strangways seldom entered it but he contused himself and it was also dark as the inside of a hat, and undeniably stuffy.

Well just so or very like it the Melpomene's first lieutenant kept swinging and chafing on the quarter-deck all that afternoon or, to be precise, until six o'clock, when Captain Suckling came aboard in a shore-boat, and in his shore-going clothes. "Nothing of the sort, sir! It's the first " Captain Suckling checked himself.

It seemed to her that her own servants worked from without at a mass of dry details which might as well be forgotten. Melpomene's worked on material that was eternally interesting the souls of men and women; and not from without, either; but rather casting themselves into those souls and showing to us the essence of them.

Who was Thalia, pray, and what is the length of her i? Is Melpomene's name in three syllables or four? And do you know from whose design I stole that figure of Tragedy which adorns the initial G of this chapter? Now, it has been said how Mr.