From: Palas <vi...@go...> - 2009-08-25 10:53:55
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His deadly-lively place, and this monotonous, cooped-up life. "How do you manage to write one-handed?" I asked. And he sat down to his desk, put a letter-weight on the left-hand corner of the sheet of foolscap, and wrote that comical first paragraph of the eighth chapter over which we have all laughed. I suppose few readers guessed the author's state of mind when he wrote it. I looked over his shoulder to see what he had written, and couldn't help laughing aloud--I verily believe that it was his way of turning off attention from his arm, and leading me safely from the region of awkward questions. "By-the-by," I exclaimed, "your writing of garden-parties reminds me. I went to one at Campden Hill the other day, a |