I shall make LITTLE WILLIE learn this bit by heart.--W.

* * * * *

"The real with its meaning read wrong and emphasis misplaced is the

unreal."--R.T.

Yes; it's very hard on WOLFF'S Bureau.--W.

* * * * *

"My heart longs to caress this green world of the sunny day."--R.T.

I find it most unfortunate that all the best places in the sun should

be already occupied.--W.

* * * * *

"While I was passing in the road I saw thy smile from the balcony and

I sang."-R.T.

O dreams of the East! O Baghdad!--W.

* * * * *

"'The learned say that your light will one day be no more,' said the

firefly to the stars. The stars made no answer."--R.T.

That's what I should have done, but MICHAELIS would keep on

talking.--W.

* * * * *

"God is ashamed when the prosperous boast of His special

favour."--R.T.

This must be some other god, not our German one.--W.

* * * * *

"Power takes as ingratitude the writhings of its victims."--R.T.

And quite rightly. That's all the thanks I got when my heart bled for

Louvain.--W.

* * * * *

"Kicks only raise dust and not crops from the earth."--R.T.

Very sound. Roumania has been most disappointing.--W.

* * * * *

"Timid thoughts, do not be afraid of me. I am a poet."--R.T.

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