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"A glass of sherry and a biscuit, please. Now look here, Eliza, what's all this about?

"My room is sweet and blue(Cold is the white moon's breast),I will not think of you,I will sleep and rest."

"Wait until William has brought thy sherry, please!"

"All right now?

"Moonsilver drowns me deep,I will not call your name,I float in the sea of sleep.(God! For those nights of flame!)"

"Thee needn't look at me that way, Johnnie, I didn't write it. Thee knows thee can say things in poetry that wouldn't do in conversation, and I'm sure it's lovely, they're all lovely, only I hope people won't think they mean anything."

"It must have been very hard to find all the rhymes," Aunt Deborah's faint old voice sighed