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Poor old boy, Ill bet he only came in here for thesake of the warmth.
And if
this be true of an imposing figure like his, how about thesmaller fry?
Italy
was the land of hisadoption, of his heart, of his religion.
Indeed, he wrote to
us in anguish about thestruggle he was making to meet his liabilities.
It is
not only bad literaturebut bad breeding. Lawrence is a specimen he was
unfortunate in them. Looks as if he had been through Hell,doesnt he?
That is,
he spentat least seventy pounds too much.
I said:I wish the devil I didnt look
so kind.
He was pretty flush just then, and I on my beam ends and altogetherrun
down.
He repudiated with passion his German blood. Mazzaiba in whose possession
they thenwere and presumably still are; with negative results.
I spoke just now
of the novelists touch in biography. He thought he hadfound an asylum in Malta
where he could take breath and retrieve hislosses. Catch me keeping up such
acorrespondence with a person whom I despise! Just try to think what you did
with them.
He was pretty flush just then, and I on my beam ends and
altogetherrun down. He fancied, I regret tosay, a potent American brand whose
name has escaped me.
Vastly offensive, this prying and rapacious
meddlesomeness.
Of course it was merely a question of time. I spoke just now of
the novelists touch in biography.
Then he would disappear for a while, and come
back in despair.
Are the wishes of this dead man ever going to be respected?
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