Alone By Norman Douglas













































































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Smollet lies yonder, at Livorno; and Ouida hard by, at Bagni di Lucca.
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Smollet Lies Yonder, At Livorno; And Ouida Hard By, At Bagni Di Lucca. She Died In One Of These Same Featureless Streets Of Viareggio, Alone, Half Blind, And In Poverty....

I know Suffolk, that ripe old county of hers, with its pink villages nestling among drowsy elms and cornfields; I know their "Spread Eagles" and "Angels" and "White Horses" and other taverns suggestive - sure sign of antiquity - of zoological gardens; I know their goodly ale and old brown sherries.

Her birthplace, despite those venerable green mounds, is comparatively dull - I would not care to live at Bury; give me Lavenham or Melford or some place of that kind. While looking one day at the house where she was born, I was sorely tempted to crave permission to view the interior, but refrained; something of her own dislike of prying and meddlesomeness came over me. Thence down to that commemorative fountain among the drooping trees. The good animals for whose comfort it was built would have had some difficulty in slaking their thirst just then, its basin being chocked up with decayed leaves.

We corresponded for a good while and I still possess her letters somewhere; I see in memory that large and bold handwriting, often only two words to a line, on the high-class slate-coloured paper. The sums she spent on writing materials! It was one of her many ladylike traits.

I tried to induce her to stay with me in South Italy. She made three conditions: to be allowed to bring her dogs, to have a hot bath every day, and two litres of cream.

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