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Among the minor poems the reader will find the best expression of Arnold's ideals and methods in "Dover Beach," the love lyrics entitled "Switzerland," "Requiescat," "Shakespeare," "The Future," "Kensington Gardens," "Philomela," "Human Life," "Callicles's Song," "Morality," and "Geist's Grave." the last being an exquisite tribute to a little dog which, like all his kind, had repaid our scant crumbs of affection with a whole life's devotion.
He drove first to the Milbrey house, on the chance that she might be at home. Jarvis answered his ring. "Miss Milbrey is with Mrs. Van Geist, sir." Jarvis spoke regretfully. Pie had reasons of his own for believing that the severance of the Milbrey relationship with Mr. Bines had been nothing short of calamitous. He rang Mrs. Van Geist's bell, five minutes later.
"Yes, Miss Milbrey, she's confined to her room h'account h'of a cold, miss." "Thank heaven!" "Yes, miss certainly! will you go h'up to her?" "And Mutterchen, dear, it was a regular bombshell," she concluded after she had fluttered some of the November freshness into Mrs. Van Geist's room, and breathlessly related the facts. "You demented creature! I should say it must have been."
A further reprint in 1881 restored the whole Church of Brou and A Dream, and gave two or three small additions, especially Geist's Grave. The three-volume edition of 1885 also republished Merope for the first time, and added Westminster Abbey and Poor Matthias.
In that room during fifteen years, he wrote God and the Bible, the many suggestive and fruitful Essays, including the American addresses, of his later years seeds, almost all of them, dropped into the mind of his generation for a future harvesting; a certain number of poems, including the noble elegiac poem on Arthur Stanley's death, "Geist's Grave" and "Poor Matthias"; a mass of writing on education which is only now, helped by the war, beginning to tell on the English mind; and the endlessly kind and gracious letters to all sorts and conditions of men and women the literary beginner, the young teacher wanting advice, even the stranger greedy for an autograph.
"Take it at once, and tell her I shall be up to see her presently." Jarvis vanished. "I think I see a way to put pressure on her, that is if the morning hasn't already brought her back to her senses." At four o'clock that afternoon, Avice Milbrey's ring brought Mrs. Van Geist's butler to the door. "Sandon, is Aunt Cornelia at home?"
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