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NELL SHIPMAN

IN"

THE GIRL FROM GOD'S COUNTRY"

IN SEVEN PARTS.

Next "Change, Saturday, July 25th.

DOROTHY DALTON

IN

"THE

IDOL OF THE NORTH

"

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE.

TO-DAY, At All Shows.

90

Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE RANDOLPH

THE

CHESTER'S IMMORTAL STORY

SON OF WALLINGFORD

(IN EIGHT ENORMOUS REELS),

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obos. It is a soothing, bomblesome ward. Poggibonsi,

Poggibonsi, Poggibonsi. Togg You must boom lightly on the mate. Thus

Browning:

Foggi-BOY-si

penulti-

TUSCANY The year's (as Cotirade Browning observes) at the spring; and day's at the morn. Morning's at (approximately) I wonder (very drowsily) why Comrade Is Browning, who was so good at Italian 12.90. Is the hillside dew-pearled! the lark on the wing? In the anail on placenames, never worked Poggibonsi in- the thorn! I have not looked, writes to something. (lenuine line by Comrade D.B. Wyndham Lewis, the English she fared it, lamping Semminiato." humourist. in the Daily Mail. lying under a tree on a little hill in Lincs composed by me on the spot on ho Tuscany, outside the walls of Siena, half half of Comrade Browning, working in

staring

Poggibonsi : drowned in happiness and through half-closed eyes at the great bowl of sky above me. The whole world is a blaze of gold and blue.. I have had

I am

breakfast of bread and honey (like the Queen in her parlour) and I am stretch- ed out lazily, thinking of absolutely nothing.

What, then! The met, quatha, și Рода Доня

(Hand to the helee, there Count the

thing achieved

Ay, but when Strozzi pomped it at

Firenze

(He! So-you glimpse it! Os that

night, remember.

prth famed torch father blade- you know the reat!)

Poggibonai served a turn there, you'll

aford-

"Phi For a thousand turns such, han-

telled Bese!

Forth leer's old Pandolf from his onion

bed.

I do not know what it means. It is in Comrade Browning's well-known obscure manner.

No, I am not. I am thinking of some thing. I am thinking of Comrade Pel

40. I am thinking how sick he would be because I am not making a mental note of the objects around me. In the last half-hour I have seen a bee, au os. three peasants, Ave little white clouds, a fight of birds... Or is it a box, five pheasants and a flight of cows! I do not remember: I do not care. The out raged screams of Comrade Pelman in pinge pleasantly on my drowsy car. He screams lite lark, and sometimes he booms like a belt. I open my eyes with some difficulty and perceive a lark meant- ing into the blue. The bell is one of the bells of San Domenico la Siena, It is ridiculous to mix up Comrade Pelman with a lark. He would certainly not Ay up and down in euch an aimless way. He wonki ask himself, "Am I increasing my sang power? Am I stronger on the wing to-day than I was yesterday! AmSounds had sweet Ayres, that give I among the Birds Who Matter, or am I still chirping round in the Old Rut On which he would immediately impale

a worm with knowledge and mastery and take a powerful trial light.

Another thing I am thinking about is the state of England. I wonder what is happening in England, what disasters ute overtaking my country in my absener.

I am very sleepy. I wonder legs and about Comrade Browning and Pog- gibonsi. Poggibonsi. Poggibon-

Boggiponsi

I am sinking very slowly into a warm ten sea... It is translucent. It is full of the murmurings of bees and the sleepy nets of birds. Gorgeous fish waver past. One looks like Comrade Pelman. He is biting my toes,

Millions of miles away there is music.

Delight, and hurt not." Who said that

Poggibonsi, Down, down, down. Posg

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REGISTER

Hongkong Observatory, July 23rd,

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at 2 pm 6 1.3. * p.m.

I wonder if the Bank Rate has fallen to par, or is sagging, or has been written off, or carried over to current account, or whatever happens to it. I wonder. if war has been declared on anybody, if there has been an earthquake, if the Government has fallen, if, the editor of the Dancing Greetly has come a purler at the Palais de Danse, Hammersmith. This last thought contorta my features with a strong convaltion of agony and shame much the same as happened to Lord Henry Maltravers when he learned from Constance St. Ermin that she had already plighted her troth. A warm wave of colour, if I remember rightly, lightest open-air Temperature on 22nd rushed over her ince and neck. Lord Lowest open-air Temperature on 23rd Henry's features were contorted, and be turned aside. quickly biting his lip,

I have turned aside and quickly bitten) my lip. It hurts.

I wonder lazily how, the heroines of Victorian fiction timed the wave of colour so accurately, and if the heroes really thought it clever; and contrariwise, I wonder if the heroines liked to see the I wonder if herous twisting their faces.

they ever timed it all wrong. For er ample:

LORD HENRY (in a low voice): Were it possible, Miss St, Ermin, for one

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to whom your lightest wish, your Batur

immediate and least desire, were

immutable law-were it his privilege Sau

-Day, his right

A wave of colour

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sweeps over Man Constance's face and neck.

Thur. 30

LORD HENRY (much annoyed); I beg Taos.

your pardon. I had not finished.

I was not Wed. CONSTANCE (falteringly):

aware-I did not dream-that I had interrupted an arowal which--- LORD HENRY (sharply): You cannot deny, Miss St Ermin, that a warm, wave of colour has this moment swept over your neck?

CONSTANCE (turing aside): No, no. Logo HESRY (accusingly): Your ears

are quite "red.

chair)":

CONSTANCE (inking- into e Leave my presence, sir. LORD HENRY (angrily): Certainly,

as soch na my features have been pro- perly convulsed..

He turns aside and becomes eat- vulsed with agony, biting his lip at the same time-a difficult thing| to do. As he does so a sharp yelp escapes him.

CONSTANCE: You fe

LonD HINRY (in a muffled voice): I

caught my whiskers.

fioes out sideways;

A little tiny breeze comes down the valley and stirs the trees. Over the eld city wall a little cloud is sailing, and the southern road, glaring white in the sun, climbs up through the gate, past the Roman bath and, the street of the tanpers, past the bouse of Catherine, Servant of God, up to the narrow main street of Biena with its palaces; and so to the crown and glory of Tuscany, which is its white and black marble cathedral. It is immensely hot. and the grasshop pers are in full song. I tell myself that they do it by rubbing their hind legs. together. Nobody else can do this I wonder how an audience would look in Queca's Hall if a singer came forward and rubbed a group of Brahms. lider at then I wonder it he would do it by holding on to the pianoforte (if Mr. Liddle-or". Kiddle would let him; which doubt), or by lying down be The critics tween two potted palma would say Early sock trouble marred Mr.'s first offering, but in the ribulo paiges he was in excellent leg. Ho Ahould, however, endeavour to avoid over- emphasising his bravura by wiggling the

tors.

It is tremendously hot, I close my eyes and think that later in the day. I will go to Poggibonsi, which I passed in the train some days ago." I want to go to Poggibonsi because its name attracts me. It is a little place on the lias to Siena, and on its platforin there is a memorial tablet to George Stephenson. I do not know why, Perhaps they are fond of steam, as some. people are of string. I deliberate on the pleasant nang of Poggibonsi. It sounds like fat man blowing bubbles through a B-flat

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