The Journal of a Disappointed Man
W. N. P. Barbellion284... To think how I have acted the Prince to her when really I am only a beggar! November 16. A little better and more cheerful: altho' my impregnable colon still holds out. It would be nice if a physician from London one of these days were to gallop up hotspur, tether his horse to the gate post and dash in waving a reprieve--the discovery of a cure! ... I was in an impish mood and said: "Oh! dear, I'm full of misery." "Don't be silly," she said, "so am I." November 17.