And this is his pen--the last pen he ever used." She took it in her hand and paused for the right number of seconds.

"Here," she continued, "is the original manuscript of the 'Ode to Winter.' The early manuscripts are far less corrected than the later ones, as you will see directly....

Oh, do take it yourself," she added, as Mrs.
Bankes asked, in an awestruck tone of voice, for that privilege, and began a preliminary unbuttoning of her white kid gloves.
"You are wonderfully like your grandfather, Miss Hilbery," the American lady observed, gazing from Katharine to the portrait, "especially about the eyes.

Come, now, I expect she writes poetry herself, doesn't she ?" she asked in a jocular tone, turning to William.

"Quite one's ideal of a poet, is it not, Mr.Rodney?
I cannot tell you what a privilege I feel it to be standing just here with the poet's granddaughter.