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...retired for the night to our respective rooms, the thought occurred to me that I would attempt to find out whether the report that Tennyson is guilty of - of snoring were true or not. So I crept softly from the room, - I think it was only the second-best chamber; however, I forgive them that, - I crept, I say, down the long corridor to the door of the apartment where the great man lay. I applied my ear to the key-hole. All was still; "not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse," as the poet says, - I remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REMINISCENCES OF TENNYSON. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

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