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roaring,' also i men's hearts failing them for fear,' for 

 the occupants of the rooms we used to have never 

 went to bed last night. 



This morning an English man-of-war ran in for 

 refuge, but had to run out again before the return 

 salutes had been fired, as her anchors could not hold, 

 and an odd accident happened. At the 18-minute 

 gun from the fort, one of the gunners somehow got 

 in front of the cannon and was blown to atoms. I 

 suppose they were all confused with the wind and the 

 spray. 



The waterproof coat you sent me is in great 

 requisition. Moreover it is a source of great amuse- 

 ment to the Inner Brotherhood, as Miss Taylor has 

 discovered in it a close resemblance to a hassock — 

 no, I mean a cassock. She wants me to get a round 

 hat wherewith to ' cap ' it when I return to Oxford. 

 All the same, it is the best thing in the way of a 

 waterproof that I have met as yet. 



The Aryan lecture from Canon Taylor has come 

 off, and it was really splendid. Everybody came, 

 and the Canon delivered a mass of most interesting 

 matter. He began by saying that my lectures had 

 been illustrated by specimens, but that the only 

 specimens he would show were the members of his 

 audience themselves, who were all Aryans. The 

 title of the lecture was ' The Origin of the Aryans,' 

 and one of the audience had understood this to be 

 'Origin. of the Arians,' and had come expecting a 

 theological discussion on the rise of the Arian heresy. 

 She was beyond measure astonished and indignant 

 at his assumption that we were all heretics ! 



