LONDON AND PARIS GOSSIP
... LONDON, February 22nd, 1869. I must ask you to-day to suppose me sitting down to write this letter in a white sheet, with a couple of wax tapers by say side, and ejaculating at every third line Peceavi. Per- haps it may require an effort of imagination, for newspapers And newspaper writers are nothing if not infallible; and I suppose you, like the Timens, act upon the old maxim, ?? Never ...