Such was his first and last oral contribution to the scene.
_In the Bath_ Priam Farll was wandering about the uncharted groves of Wimbledon Common, and uttering soliloquies in language that lacked delicacy.

He had rushed forth, in his haste, without an overcoat, and the weather was blusterously inclement.

But he did not feel the cold; he only felt the keen wind of circumstance.
Soon after the purchase of his picture by the lunatic landlord of a fully licensed house, he had discovered that the frame-maker in High Street knew a man who would not be indisposed to buy such pictures as he could paint, and transactions between him and the frame-maker had developed into a regular trade.

The usual price paid for canvases was ten pounds, in cash.

By this means he had earned about two hundred a year.