To those who knew her and to the greatly enlarged circle who were electrified by her last poems and sudden death, she had come to signify the specific honesties and risks of the poet’s condition.

In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river.

Mr. Walker does triumphantly claim the discovery of the inverted circumflex accent, or the downward and upward continued movement. […] Greek and Roman writers tell us, indefinitely, of the acute, grave, and circumflex movements; and these, with the newly described inverted circumflex, have, at a recent date, first been formally regarded, in the art of speaking the English language.

No, sir, no. They always think I know them. I know none of them. They come and I describe them. How do you get the message? Clairaudient. I hear it. I hear them all the time.