Pure fantasia as the fictional betrothal is, it illustrates how pseudoromantic and sentimental Bernard Shaw was at heart, in spite of his public pose...

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There were statues of shimmering ice, which stood unmeltably, and flowering trees fashioned of noble metals and precious gems, and fountains of colored smoke which jetted from bowls of alabaster.

As over Holt and Heath, as thorough Frith and Fell;