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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... of relations--Uncle Capsicum, Aunt Eugenia, Aunt Guava, and others, whose names he took from the various plants mentioned in his favourite Paul and Virginia. As a rule he took very little notice of the undergraduates, either in the quad or the lecture-room. One of them, Mr. G. C. Monck, '3' writes to me: He was (u I had the story from the Rev. Anthony Bathe, who, however, cannot vouch for its truthfulness. Mr. Edmund Gosse tells it rather differently in Critical Kit-Kats, p. 269. See Critical Kit-Kats, p. 268. W' Now Rector of Closworth, Sherborne. always in a dream, and from his habit of slouching past under the wall and never looking anyone fairly in the face, the undergraduates called him 'Judas.' Wl Another comment was that he slunk under a wall as though he had committed a theft, which he certainly never did, unless lifting an expressive word from Hooker or Taylor be so described. Amusingly enough, while the undergraduates were making fun of Pater, it often happened--had they but known it--that he was ridiculing them. His comments on some of them, remarked an Oxford correspondent to the writer, were irresistibly funny. He likened one to a sausage, to whose sleek, unctuous body (smelling so savoury, too, and making one's mouth water), somebody, who had already touched it with a fork, was about to apply a knife; and others he compared to various animals and mimicked their actions; but, as wit of this kind invariably evaporates when committed to paper, we shall not attempt to reproduce it. Suffice it to say that it was amusing enough at the time and convulsed his hearers. He viewed the follies and frolics of the undergraduates with leniency. When somebody asked him whether their horseplay did not disturb him, he replied, &quo...

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