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My story By the Gate of the Sea had been the last to appear in the original series founded by Thackeray, and I was invited by Mr Payn to inaugurate the new and cheaper issue.
It was a very small party at Lady Galway's, the only other guest being Sir Frederick Pollock; but the talk was certainly as good as any I had ever listened to. When Lady Galway left the room, I reminded our host of the condition with regard to cigars, for Payn, I saw, was already impatient. Lord Houghton suggested a cigarette, which would by no means have met the views of Payn.
Happily I had my cigar-case with me, and this part of the dinner treaty was carried out in its entirety. I still remember the stories of that delightful evening. They were many and striking. Both Payn and Lord Houghton were at their best, and Sir Frederick Pollock, when the opportunity occurred, gave us pleasant recollections of the past. I was only too glad to be a listener.
Appointed London Correspondent of the Leeds Mercury My Marriage Securing Admission to the Reporters' Gallery Relations between Reporters and Members Inadequate Accommodation for the Press Reminiscences of the Clerkenwell Explosion The Last Public Execution The Arundel Club James Macdonell Robert Donald James Payn Mrs. Riddell and the St.
He and I had become bound to each other by ties of warm affection. I had the greatest admiration for his genius, and a profound love for his pure and chivalrous character; but, like myself, he was a listener at the table at which Payn sat. He could say good things occasionally, but, as a rule, his conversation did not approach the excellence of his writing.
'Is Dr Graham young? asked Miss Norsham, in the faint hope that Mrs Pansey's list of inhabitants might include a wealthy bachelor. 'Young? He's sixty, if you call that young, and in his second childhood. An Atheist, too. Tom Payn, Colonel Ingersoll, Viscount Amberly those are his gods, the pagan! I'd burn him on a tar-barrel if I had my way.
For surely, at this time of day in the nineteenth century, there is nothing that an honest man should fear more timorously than getting and spending more than he deserves. James Payn. A footnote, at least, is due to the admirable example set before all young writers in the width of literary sympathy displayed by Mr. Swinburne.
The two papers on Talk and Talkers first appeared in the Cornhill Magazine, for April and for August, 1882, Vol. XLV, pp. 410-418, Vol. XLVI, pp. 151-158. The second paper had the title, Talk and Talkers. With the publication of the second part, Stevenson's connection with the Cornhill ceased, as the magazine in 1883 passed from the hands of Leslie Stephen into those of James Payn.
"Good heavens!" she exclaimed; "you don't mean to say " "Please don't ask any more," said Payn pleadingly; "I really could not tell you." Which was true to the ear, if not to the sense. Municipal eloquence has been time out of mind a storehouse of delight.
They were hated because of their exclusiveness, and envied owing to the fact that there was more laughter at that one table than at all the others put together. It was James Payn who was the chief cause of the laughter. He had himself the loudest laugh of any man I ever met, and he laughed incessantly.
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