desolut

Updated: May 3, 2025

Johnson's portrait, balancing a black-handled knife between his first and second fingers, and nodding good-fellowship to every journalist in the room, "the apartment in Bloomsbury is desolut; the furnichur' what was lift av ut disparsed; the leopard an' the lizard keep the courts where O'Driscoll gloried an' drank deep; an' the wild ass meanin' by that the midical student on the fourth floor stamps overhead, but cannot break his sleep.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Delectable Duchy