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over, it appears, as the Professor so happily 

 expresses it, exactly " like a bad half-crown 

 at the bottom of a basin of soap-suds." 



I hope you will have a pleasant dinner 1 

 to-morrow, and wish I was to be present, so 

 as to hear your little speech. 



G. D. L. 



1 The Artists' General Benevolent Fund Dinner, at which Mr. 

 Marks returned thanks for The Royal Society of Water -Colour 

 Painters. 



