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Plum Punch

The Life of Writers

9781465540423
182 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
AN UNFINISHED COLLECTION A silence had fallen upon the smoking-room. The warrior just back from the front had enquired after GEORGE VANDERPOOP, and we, who knew that GEORGE’S gentle spirit had, to use a metaphor after his own heart, long since been withdrawn from circulation, were feeling uncomfortable and wondering how to break the news. SMITHSON is our specialist in tact, and we looked to him to be spokesman. “GEORGE,” said SMITHSON at last, “the late GEORGE VANDERPOOP—” “Late!” exclaimed the warrior; “is he dead