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I conceive the kingdom of the Muses milder mannered: and in particular that country which you administer and which I seem to see as a half-suburban land; a land of hollyhocks and country houses; a land where at night, in stony and sequestered bypaths, you will meet masqueraders going to a ball in their sedans, and the rector steering homewards by the light of his lantern."— To Austin Dobson.
"The Letters of P. I. Stevenson." Edited by Sir Sidney Colvin. (Methuen.)
AUSTIN DOBSON.
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