2/29 First syllable of Hawkshaw and second of Furneaux--the latter Anglicized, of course." "And vulgarized." "You prefer Furshaw, perhaps ?" "Either effort is feeble for a man who can write about South America, and be lucid. Do you smoke this stuff, may I ask ?" While talking, he had smelt and destroyed the second cigarette. I'm a non-smoker. My profession demands a clear intellect, not a brain atrophied by nicotine." "Piffle! Carlyle and Bismarck were smokers." "Who reads Carlyle now-a-days? It was once a pure ivory white. |