| Show genius and poverty david christie murray the novel it 9 wr writes ite 8 eight or ten years ago ago I 1 was sitting in the savage club in the company of four distinguished men man of letters one was the editor of a london aaili and he was talking jather too humbly as I 1 thought about his own career 1 I 1 do not suppose he said that any man in my present position has experienced in london jondon the privations I 1 know knew when I 1 first came here I 1 wont went hungry for thre ed days twenty years bachand back bac kand and for three nights I 1 slept in the park one of the party turned to me you cap that thai christiel christie I 1 answered four ix wu buur Q dav a 6 it kiy my lefthand left hand neigh bor was a poet and he chimed in laconically five in effect it proved that there was not one of us who had not slept in that hotel of the beautiful star which is always open to everybody we had all been fre quent guests there and now wo we were wera all prosperous and had found other and aad more comfortable lodgings |
