The life and letters of Theodore Watts-Dunton . had a countenance as noble as Shakespeares. Acelebrity if ever there was one ! * On parting from Borrow I said, Wont you cometo luncheon to-morrow at the apartments we have takenat Dunwich ? and I told him the address. Whereare you staying ? ** At the Swan, Southwold, said he. * But I shallenjoy the four-mile walk. I am as much a tramp asever. After he was gone I turned to my companion andsaid, He used to be as fine a platter-man as youd findin England, and I daresay he is now. His favourite meal,I remember, is a one-joint meal—a boiled leg of mu
The life and letters of Theodore Watts-Dunton . had a countenance as noble as Shakespeares. Acelebrity if ever there was one ! * On parting from Borrow I said, Wont you cometo luncheon to-morrow at the apartments we have takenat Dunwich ? and I told him the address. Whereare you staying ? ** At the Swan, Southwold, said he. * But I shallenjoy the four-mile walk. I am as much a tramp asever. After he was gone I turned to my companion andsaid, He used to be as fine a platter-man as youd findin England, and I daresay he is now. His favourite meal,I remember, is a one-joint meal—a boiled leg of mutton A DAY WITH LAVENGRO. 97 and turnips. And, by-the-bye, there is one thing I oughtto tell you, as he is coming to luncheon with us to-morrow. Unless you wish to rouse his ire, you mustbe careful to make no allusion to his published would be a mortal offence ! It is one of his affec-tations to ignore everything that he has published. () « II. THE PINES. Algernon Charles Swinburne (jet. 65){Photo by Foo/c, Putney). XXI. At The Pines. TN the autumn of 1879 Swinburne began his newlife on Putney Hill. Before he took up his per-manent abode there, however, he went on a visit toWatts-Dunton at Ivy Lodge, in the Werter Road, offthe Putney High Street, where his friend had been re-siding, with his sister, Mrs. Charles Mason, since he leftDanes Inn. It was that memorable visit to Ivy Lodgethat directly led to the two poets becoming house-matesat The Pines. The event was brought about more byaccident than by any design or even forethought onWatts-Duntons part. It never entered into his calcula-tions as to what might flow out of the very natural circum-stance of Swinburne becoming a guest at Ivy Lodge. At this time (1879), as Watts-Dunton has recorded, Swinburnes energy was at fever heat ; he was notonly at work upon his eloquent Study of Shakespeare^but he was engaged upon three other volumes—TheModern Heptalogia^ a brilliant anonymous essay inparody ; So
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