pencil-games

Updated: May 13, 2025

For hours together he would poke about the country with a dog, a gun and a cigar, perfectly independent and self-sufficing, whether engaged in sport, repartee, or literature. He wrote and published for private circulation a small book of poems and made the Souls famous by his proficiency at all our pencil-games.

Margot Asquith - Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One

We were discussing imagination one night and were comparing Hawthorne, De Quincey, Poe and others, in consequence of a dispute arising out of one of our pencil-games; and we argued till the housemaid came in with the hot water at eight in the morning. I will digress here to explain our after-dinner games.

Margot Asquith - Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One

I made him write them down for me, and we discussed religion, preachers and politics at some length before I went home. The next morning he wrote to his daughter: ARGYLL LODGE, KENSINGTON. How dare you ask me to meet a syren. Your affectionate, I shall open this chapter of my autobiography with a character- sketch of myself, written at Glen in one of our pencil-games in January, 1888.

Margot Asquith - Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One