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He says; 'I shall be sixty-two the twelfth of next November. Now, as The Bee was published in October 1759, he would be, not sixty-two, but just half that number thirty-one on his next birth-day. It is scarcely likely that he selected the number and the date at random. Reynolds chose the spot in Westminster Abbey where the monument should stand. Northcote's Reynolds, i. 326.
It felt as if it might go on for ever, and yet the very sentiment that inspired it made separation and convulsion inevitable one of those strange paradoxes which occur every day. Thus the year crept round, and winter melted away with all its amusements, and spring began. Mr. Northcote's time at Salem Chapel was more than half over, a fact on which the congregation congratulated itself much.
All the old lot were there as of yore Viola Tree, Lady Diana Manners, Harry Lindsay, the Raymond Asquiths, etc., etc. I saw them all from quite far away. Lord Stanmore was in the box with us, and he it was who told me of Elsie Northcote's sudden death. It wasn't the right place to hear about it. Too many are gone or are going.
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