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 This pococurantist attitude, if I may employ a phrase beloved by Teixeira, was not supported by his wife in the postscript which she added:

''Poor fellow, he was so tired travelling and so good over it. This place one could wear rags in, it's so antiquated; and we shall return confirmed frumps and bores. There is some miniature beauty in a low hill and a tinkly pier that would be blown away in a quarter of a gale''

I have seen the sun and feel reasonably well and happy, Teixeira proclaims in a second letter on the same day

From the end of September to the end of December, when I left England, our letters—though we corresponded almost daily were much taken up with business matters. I therefore only reproduce such extracts as throw light on Teixeira's literary opinions and on his life at Ventnor.

My dear Stephen, loyal and true, he writes on 3. 10. 20''; A thousand thanks for Lady Lilith, with its charming dedication, and for your letter I cannot well lend you the Repington volumes. I have them from the Times Book''