How Sad a Passage

COUNTESS "This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that 'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, would have made nature immortal, and death should have play for lack of work." -Act I scene i, All's Well that Ends Well.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Subject to Check

"It's a very remarkable circumstance, sir," said Sam, "that poverty and oysters always seem to go together... Blessed if I didn't think that wena man's very poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation."

-Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

All the better when you can get the Talisker to accompany it, and someone else to pay.

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