Browning's Men and Women,1855

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY. No more wine ? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, tho': cool, i'faith ! We ought to have our Abbey back, you see. It's different, preaching in basilicas, And doing duty in some masterpiece Like this of brother Pugin's, bless his heart! I doubt if they're half baked, those chalk rosettes, Ciphers and stucco-twiddlings everywhere; It's just like breathing in a lime-kiln: eh ? These hot long ceremonies of our church 10 Cost us a little?oh, they pay the price, You take me?amply pay it! Now, we'll talk. So, you despise me, Mr. Gigadibs. No deprecation, ?nay, I beg you, sir ! Beside 'tis our engagement: don't you know, I promised, if you'd watch a dinner out, We'd see truth dawn together truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done, And body gets its sop and holds its noise And leaves soul free a little. Now's the time? 20 'Tis break of day ! You do despise me then; And if I say, " despise me,"?never fear? I know you do not in a certain sense? Not in my arm-chair for example: here, I well imagine you respect my place (Status, entourage, worldly circumstance) Quite to its value?very much indeed ?Are up to the protesting eyes of you In pride at being seated here for once? You'll turn it to such capital account! 30 When somebody, through years and years to come, Hints of the bishop, ?names me?that's enough? " Blougram ? I knew him "?(into it you slide) " Dined with him once, a Corpus Christi Day, All alone, we two?he's a clever man? And after dinner, ?why, the wine you know, ? Oh, there was wine, and good !?what with the wine . . . 'Faith, we began upon all sorts of talk ! He's no bad fellow, Blougram?he had seen Something of mine he relished?some revie...

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