Word: clayfoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lovely little person" spends his days knitting towels (which Crabbe hawks after dark on the streets), reciting Euripides and telling his benefactor, "Oh you're inimitable." The affair does not last. Kemp recovers his sight and encounters an old friend, an officer in the Horse Guards named Theophanes Clayfoot. In high Victorian style, this "howling swell" sweeps Kemp off to his manor, and Crabbe is left faint with starvation, beset by creditors, an outcast. "Festering in his shell," he is "alone and naked -all alone with The Alone...
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