I ot remember who first brought me to the old stable beside Kelmscott House, William Morris house at Hammersmith, & to the debates held there upon Sunday evenings by the socialist League. I was soon of the little group who had supper with Morris afterwards. I met at these suppers very stantly Walter e, Emery Walker presently, in association with Cobden Sanderson, the printer of many fine books, and less stantly Bernard Shaw and Cockerell, now of the museum of Cambridge, and perhaps but once or twice Hyndman the socialist and the anarchist Prince Krapotkin. There too one always met certain more or less educated workmen, rough of speed manner, with a vi to meet every turn. I was told by one of them, on a night when I had done perhaps more than my share of the talking, that I had talked more nonsense in one evening than he had heard in the whole course of his past life. I had merely preferred Parnell, then at the height of his career, to Michael Davitt who had wrecked his Irish influence by iional politics. We sat round a long unpolished and unpairestle table of new wood in a room where hung Rossettis Pomegranate, a portrait of Mrs. Morris, and where one wall and part of the ceiling were covered by a great Persian carpet. Morris had said somewhere or other that carpets were meant for people who took their shoes off when they entered a house, and were most in place upon a tent floor. I was a little disappointed in the house, for Morris was an old man tent at last to gather beautiful things rather than te a beautiful house. I saw the drawing?room once or twid there alone all my sense of decoration, founded upon the background of Rossettis pictures, was satisfied by a big cupboard painted with a se from Chaucer by Burne Jones, but even there were objects, perhaps a chair or a little table, that seemed actal, bought hurriedly perhaps, and with little thought, to make wife or daughter fortable. I had read as a boy in books belonging to my father, the third volume of The Earthly Paradise and The Defence of Guinevere, which pleased me less, but had not opeher for a long time. The man who never laughed again had seemed the most wonderful of tales till my father had accused me of preferring Morris to Keats, got angry about it and put me altogether out of tenance. He had spoiled my pleasure, for now I questioned while I read and at last ceased to read; nor had Morris written as yet those prose romahat became, after his death, so great a joy that they were the only books I was ever to read slowly that I might not e too quickly to the end. It wasnow Morris himself that stirred my i, and I took to him first because of some little tricks of speed body that reminded me of my old grandfather in Sligo, but soon discovered his spoy and joy and made him my chief of men. To?day I do not set his poetry very high, but for an odd altogether wonderful line, or thought; a, if some angel offered me the choice, I would choose to live his life, poetry and all, rather than my own or any other mans. A reprodu of his portrait by Watts hangs over my mantlepiece with Henleys, and those of other friends. Its grave wide?open eyes, like the eyes of some dreami, remind me of the open eyes of Titians Ariosto, while ……（内容加载失败！）
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