[PARENTHETICAL]
"And these, you see," I said, "are bay-trees, the laurels they used
the leaves of to ..."
I was going to say "to crown poets," but I left my sentence in
mid-air, because of course he knew that as well as I.
"Precisely," he answered with intelligent interest--"I have noticed
that the leaves are sometimes put in sardine boxes."
Soon after this conversation I discovered the curious circumstance
that one of the greatest of peoples and perhaps the most favoured by
Apollo, calls Laurus Nobilis "Laurier-Sauce." The name is French; the
symbol, alas, of universal application.
This paragraph X. had been intended to deal with "Art as it is
understood by persons of fashion and eminent men of business."