A novelist on language
For years my favorite line in Middlemarch has been Lady Chettam's He is a gentleman. I heard him talking to Humphrey. He talks well. Now it's got some competition.
‘The strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.’
— A.T. Roycroft (@roycroftpoetry) December 4, 2019
Fred Vincy in #Middlemarch by #GeorgeEliot @GeorgeEliotLove @GeorgeEliot_ pic.twitter.com/ovSjaSB10K