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"I do not know, sir, really," said I; "but I suppose some of the prisoners will have escaped." "Be damned!" says he. "O, sir, they will be soon taken," I replied: "it has been found in time. Good-morning, sir!" "Ye walk late, sir?" he added. "O, surely not," said I, with a laugh. "Earlyish, if you like!" which brought me finally beyond him, highly pleased with my success.
"Such are the folk that deride you, such are the folk that ignore the gods whom Miramon fashioned, such are the folk whom to-day I permit you freely to deal with after the manner of gods. Do you now make the most of your chance, and devastate all Poictesme in time for an earlyish supper!" The faces of these ten became angry, and they shouted, "Blaerde Shay Alphenio Kasbue Gorfons Albuifrio!"
'I do not know, sir, really, said I; 'but I suppose some of the prisoners will have escaped. 'Bedamned! says he. 'Oh, sir, they will be soon taken, I replied: 'it has been found in time. Good morning, sir! 'Ye walk late, sir? he added. 'Oh, surely not, said I, with a laugh. 'Earlyish, if you like! which brought me finally beyond him, highly pleased with my success.
Certain poets, a certain time ago, ransacked the language for words full of life and beauty, made a vocabulary of them, and out of wantonness wrote them to death. To change somewhat the simile, they scented out a word an earlyish word, by preference ran it to earth, unearthed it, dug it out, and killed it. And then their followers bagged it.
Some idea of the life he led there is given at the close of a letter to Frederic Leighton, August 17, 1863, in which he says: 'I live upon milk and fruit, bathe daily, do a good morning's work, read a little with Pen and somewhat more by myself, go to bed early, and get up earlyish rather liking it all. This mention of a diet of milk and fruit recalls a favourite habit of Mr.
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