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The Descent of Man he says: "Music arouses in us various emotions, but not the more terrible ones of horror, fear, rage, etc."

He had never heard of me, though I was 17 when he died.

Tex.  Crowborough, 30 June (alas, how time flies!) 1920.  ''For your two letters of 28, 29 June, many thanks. I really can't write and congratulate H. on that! How awful!''

And to think that, if Lionel [the recipient of the "blue"] had been "vowed" to the B. V. M. in his infancy, he'd have worn nothing but blue and white, anyhow, till he came of age!

Objecting to my having enclosed the phrase "honest broker" in inverted commas, he continues:

Lady Y., you may remember, said:

"Good beobles, we come here for your goots."

"Ay," they replied, "and for our chattels too!"

''I don't want your chattels; but I am convinced that I came to England for your goots and to save you from degenerating into a lady novelist.''