The colonial lady artist
introduced
Esau to Miss
Belia Chaplin
of red roaring hair
the ripened orphan
of an eclectiastic
who according to Esau's pre - introductory
valuation for Ova prior to official
acquaintanceship
allowed him in intimacy
divers little liberties
confided to him her
successful descretions in 'Amour '
the consequent stamina of her
social prestige—phenomenal
on proportion to her negligible income
and in regard to her
single - female circumstance

" She has influence too " he chortled
" I posted
a billet doux addressing her
in an envelope directed to your father
She brought pressure to bear
and Presto ! The post master general
retracted it from the mail

It is such little discretions "
smiled Esau pensively - - - -

" Miss Chaplin " "Mrs Penfold"
" A lovely creature " opined
the assorter of suitable settings
for her hostesship

The social shove
brought Ova into
line with the illuminate
procession through those roomy lairs
of partially socially anæsthetised
animals cup - emptiers by process
of insuction
by process of insuction

Below their busts
irrupting into the
roman lamp - light From easeful
body to body seated in the
nether - shadow a telepathic effluence
intercommuned

" We are all well-connected
( part
of the cosmopolitan mesh of aristocracy
taut - stretched
throughout the scrambling herds of continents
and knotted
every here and there
to oligarchical nuclei )

We have all got plenty of space"
(space for collecting exquisite things
adopted debris of a declined

customs - house watch dogs
disputing fossil bones with the consumer

(Sweaty porters heaving
into the office a replica
of an enormous Lucca Della Robbia
Inspector inspecting the clean clay crevices
of the fresh moulded rear " Ho ho !
This is the kind of goods you foist
on innocent America " - - -

Some days later this same
official glances superficially
at the same apple - bound Madonna
and passes

" Another original for America - - eh ? "

Sweaty porters

heave out the genuine Della Robbia
thus illegally liberated from the ties of it's nativity
by the State's permit for export

Outside the esoteric circle
of collecting capitalist - exporters
the smaller fry -plying-
their minor traffic in the antique
make unavailing chorus
against disparaging harm the dishonest, connoisseur
are and for their pains - ignored,
as 'money grubbing outsiders'

The social shove
brought Ova into
line with the illuminate
procession through those roomy lairs
of partially socially anaesthetised
animals cup - emptiers by process
of induction

We have all got plenty of space "
(space for collecting exquisite things
adopted debris of a declined

Winning an international form
of foregone national esteem
through new found culture

The Palmians
were rapidly acquiring
a novel social determination
and built the gregarious structure
of their continental reformatory
upon the prejudices
they had only momentarily
mislaid in their catastrophic
lapses from grace

Each one brought their story with them
( cabled from the higher spheres
by the Angel - guardian of the moralities
simultaneously with their arrival )
And on the average
regained their ethical equilibrium
by an excess balast of propriety

They formed
a formidable
convention of starting again
and again they started
with laudable
probity and intensity
The colonists were easily
distinguished from visitors
by the fossilised
fixity of the eyes and other features
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