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"Did you explain about the trousers?"

"Yes It seeive aridiculous"

"I think you're well out of it," said Sairl"

"I feel that now But it doesn't alter the fact that my life is ruined I have become a woman-hater It's an infernal nuisance, because practically all the poetry I have ever written rather went out of its way to boost woain and approach the subject frole Women! When I think how mother behaved and how Wilhelainst thehty ills have not been done by Woton?" said Saenerally confined his reading of the papers to the sporting page

"In Roo as that?"

"I was quoting from Thomas Otway's 'Orphan' I wish I could write like Otway He knehat he was talking about 'Who was't betrayed the Capitol? A woman Who lost Marc Antony the world? A wo ten years' war and laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman! Destructive, daht in a way As regards soirl I nett "If you have anything bitter and derogatory to say about woerly But if you ibber about the ornah to get attracted by, go and tell it to the captain or the ship's cat or J B Midgeley Do try to realise that I am a soul in torment! I am a ruin, a spent force, a man without a future! What does life hold for ain My work? I haven't any I think I shall take to drink"

"Talking of that," said Sam, "I suppose they open the bar directly we pass the three-looadding about and feasting? Directly the vessel begins to o to bed and stay there As a o to bed now Don't let o on deck"