"How I enjoy the thought of a Royal Personage being sea-sick in crossing the Channel!"
I don't know which historical event caused George Gissing to write this in his Commonplace Book, but it seems a timely comment - not so much because of a certain royal wedding over which Telegraph readers have been fretting for ages now, but rather because I'm halfway on my way to an academic event in which the author of the above quote plays a not insignificant role.
Toodlepip, everyone!
*Title refers to this song.
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