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1909 · PDF PAGE 13

Alexandra

… to Alexandra’s brandy : We zeal for Zelma, zig-zag after Zaza, No ! happiness is never à la casa : 19. The loved disciple is perhaps St John. But Patmos is a rocky, not a wooded, island. Obscure. 20. Not a painted miniature, of course. More probably a black and white reproduction, or possi- bly a coloured one, of a sketch or photo- graph. Only the gentlemen and noblemen about the court would be in a position to order a painting on ivory by an artist such as Sargent or Herkomer from such sketch or photograph. 21. The nautical reference is, on t…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 3

Alexandra

It is at least certainly not a posthumous work of Walter Pater or John Addington Symonds : only a crapulous mountebank would credit W.B. Yeats or Robert Bridges with it. The only question is : did not perhaps the late Lord Tennyson foresee events, and leave it to be published when the right time came ? But in this case, how account for Eu- phemia’s possession of the dainty thing ? Anyway, it’s not Tennyson : don’t worry : I was only teas- ing. She had originally picked up the unfinished M.S. to use as curl-papers. It was indeed written, as will…

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