half-extemporised

Updated: July 20, 2026

I won't try to tie you down to a man in a black clerical coat with a very distant hypothetical reversionary prospect of a dull and dingy country parsonage. Flit elsewhere, little Miss Butterfly, flit elsewhere, and find yourself a gayer, gaudier-coloured mate! He sat down again, and strummed a few more bars of his half-composed, half-extemporised melody.

Grant Allen - Philistia