In the presence of Mr Waldo Story did Oscar make his prayer for preparation; and at his table was he entrusted with the materials for his crime.
You also shall again unearth, in the Nineteenth Century Review of Jan. 1889, page 37, the other appropriated property, slily stowed away, in an article on “The Decay of Lying”—though why Decay!
To shirk this matter thus is craven, doubtless; but I am awe-stricken and tremble, for truly, “the rage of the sheep is terrible!”
J. A. McN. WHISTLER.
JUST INDIGNATION
OSCAR—How dare you! What means the disguise?
Restore those things to Nathan’s, and never again let me find you masquerading the streets of my Chelsea in the combined costumes of Kossuth and Mr Mantalini!
J. A. McN. WHISTLER.
Upon seeing the Poet, in Polish cap and green overcoat, befrogged, and wonderfully befurred.