Love and Lucy

This is a romantic tale. So romantic is it that I shall be forced to pry into the coy recesses of the mind in order to exhibit a connected, reasonable affair, not only of a man and his wife prosperously seated in the mean of things, nel mezzo del cammin in space as well as time – for the Macartneys belonged to the middle class, and were well on to the middle of life themselves – , but of stript, quivering and winged souls tiptoe within them, tiptoe for flight into diviner spaces than any seemly bo