Zeno
08-14-2003, 06:52 PM
Sir Herbert and Lady Tree could be depended upon to supply an entertainment of the most delicious personal fantasy, based on the flimsiest and most delicate foundation of sense. Sir Herbert's exploits and remarks are famous - as, when, for example, he went to a post-office and asked for a penny stamp, and on being given one, demanded, 'Have you no others?". After a whole sheet of them had been produced, he considered it exhaustively, head by head, and then, selecting a stamp in the very middle, pointed at it, and remarked with emphatic decision, 'I will take THAT one.'