CXXII Verena Raby to Evangeline Barrance
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My Dear Editor,—Having read your second number I feel so much better that I am confident—to my distress—that a third will not be needed. And yet I should so much like to read many more. I have been moved to become a poet myself and write you a testimonial. After hours of thought in the watches of the night I produced this couplet, which even though it is not worthy to stand beside Pansy’s historical ballads is sincere:—
There was once a successful Beguiler Which turned a sad dame to a smiler.
You are at liberty to quote these lines in all your advertisements,—I am, yours sincerely,
Constant Reader