a-p-e

Updated: May 10, 2025

Percy Metcalfe, she assures me, was quite as backward as Vivian; indeed, backwarder; and so was Dudley, who was taught at home on the new system, by a pictorial alphabet, and who persisted to the last, notwithstanding all the exertions of Miss Barrett, in spelling A-P-E, monkey, merely because over the word there was a monster munching an apple." "And quite right in the child, my dear.

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - Vivian Grey