Pauline.—As the bee
Upon the flower hangs—I hang on thee
Such honey have thy charmed accents got.
Claude.—(aside bitterly) Alas! no honey for it is mel-not.
The Model Palace.
“When Lord Lytton wrote The Lady of Lyons he was in profound ignorance of one of the blessings in store for the human race. Nothing had then been heard of health-towns or model houses, and when Claude Melnotte sought to dazzle the mind of Pauline with a picture of the retreat love would conjure up for her, he could think of nothing better than a ramshackle old palace by the Lake of Como.
Now, had Lord Lytton enjoyed the advantage of Dr. Richardson’s acquaintance, how much more sensibly he would have set to work. The most popular passage in the play would then, without a doubt, have run somewhat in this style:—
Melnotte.—Nay, dearest, nay. If thou wouldst have me paint
The home to which—if paint were not unwholesome—