pegaway's

Updated: August 11, 2026

There was a touch of old-world courtesy in the repression of the evident impulse to spring at one's throat. The voice had notes that recalled M. Mounet-Sully's in the later and more important passages of Oedipe Roi. I remember that he always spoke with the greatest contempt of Mr. and Mrs. Pegaway's translations. He likened them to but enough! His boom is not yet at the full.

Sir Max Beerbohm - And Even Now