. George Meredith in anecdote and criticism . of choicer palates,stands Ghibberish Park, a house of some pretension, mentioned atRunnymede, with the spreading exception of wings given to it inlatter times by Daedalean monsters not to be baulked of billiardsor traps for Terpsichore, and owned for unbroken generations bya healthy line of procreant Gibberishes, to the undoing of collateralbranches eager for the birth of a female. Passengers in cushionedchambers flying through space, top-speed or dallying with obscureplatforms not alighted at apparently, have had it pointed out tothem, as beheld d
. George Meredith in anecdote and criticism . of choicer palates,stands Ghibberish Park, a house of some pretension, mentioned atRunnymede, with the spreading exception of wings given to it inlatter times by Daedalean monsters not to be baulked of billiardsor traps for Terpsichore, and owned for unbroken generations bya healthy line of procreant Gibberishes, to the undoing of collateralbranches eager for the birth of a female. Passengers in cushionedchambers flying through space, top-speed or dallying with obscureplatforms not alighted at apparently, have had it pointed out tothem, as beheld dimly for a privileged instant and then forgotten,for the most part, as they sink back behind crackling barrier ofinstructive paper, with a Thank you, sir, or Madam, as the casemay be. Here, again, in the most comic Meredithese, is a portrait ofAphasia : She had breadth. Heels that sent ample curves over the groundshe stood on, and hands that could floor you with a clinch of them,were hers. Brown eyes looked down at you from swelling temples. ^\a/y From the Cartoon by Max /?Secrhohin in Vanity Fai •Our FiKsr Novelist Bypeyniissiojt of the Pro/>rittors of Ianity Fair. IN PARODY AND CARICATURE 193 that were lost in a ruffling copse of hair. Square chin, cleftcentrally, gave her throat the look of a tower with a gun protrudentat top. Her nose was virginal, with hints of the Iron Duke at mostangles. Pink Oyster covering pearls must serve for her was dressed for church, evidently, but seemed no slave to bonnet was pushed to the back of her head, and she washandling the ribbons. One saw she was a woman. She inspireddeference. The lover is Sir Rhombus, and he is with her on Christmasmorning, lingering while the rest of the Gibberish family have goneto church. Aphasis and Sir Rhombus talk of going also : You have Prayer-Book ? he queried. She nodded. Juno catches the connubial trick. Hymns? Ancient and Modern. I may share with you ? I know them by heart. Parrots
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