Читать книгу The Life of Sir William Quiller Orchardson - Hilda Orchardson Gray - Страница 17
Then Amy, dear, pray listen here, You know the blarney stone? He kissed it with the very lips That vowed he was your own.
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ON THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE, 1871
By kind permission of A. Henderson Bishop, Esq.
Orchardson fell in love once only, at the age of forty-two, and then he married his love. All these early “affairs” were mere “leather and prunella,” as he would himself have said, but they evidently occupied a very considerable amount of time and thought—or perhaps fancy; which is my excuse, besides the character, the poetry and humour shown, for dwelling on them. The following is probably a portion of a letter to a man friend:
