We very much appreciate, too, young Lytton, your old friend.

He is noble in many ways, I think, and affectionate.
Moreover, he has an incontestable _faculty_ in poetry, and I expect great things from him as he ripens into life and experience.

Meanwhile he has just privately printed a drama called 'Clytemnestra,' too ambitious because after AEschylus, but full of promise indeed.

We are hoping that he will come down and see us in the course of our rustication at the Baths, and occupy our spare bedroom....
As to Mr .-- --, his Hebrew was Chinese to _you_, do you say?
But, dear, he is strong in veritable Chinese besides! And one evening he nearly assassinated me with the analysis, chapter by chapter, of a Japanese novel.

Mr.Lytton, who happened to be a witness, swore that I grew paler and paler, and not with sympathy for the heroine.