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My Miscellanies - Volume 2

Wilkie Collins

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. . .When he spoke, it was like reading a passage from an elegant moral writer—the words were so beautifully arranged, the sentences were turned so musically, the sentiment conveyed was so delightfully well regulated, so virtuously appropriate to nothing in particular. At such times he always spoke in a slow, deep, and gentle drawl, with a thrillingly clear emphasis on every individual syllable. His speech sounded occasionally like a kind of highly-bred foreign English, spoken by a distinguished stranger who had mastered the language to such an extent that he had got beyond the natives altogether. We watched enviously all day for any signs of human infirmity in this surprising individual. The men detected him in nothing. Even the sharper eyes of the women only discovered that he was addicted to 43 looking at himself affectionately in every glass in the house, when he thought that nobody was noticing him. At dinner-time we all pinned our faith on Sir John's excellen. . . Read More

Community Reviews

A surprisingly readable and enjoyable collection of whimsical essays on diverse subjects, none of the squibs a dud, and the best perhaps that on Mrs Badgery. Collins is sometimes overlooked against Dickens and Thackeray but is often a better plotter, a better essayist and, as here, a funnier read.