title: Looking-Glass Letters
author:  Lewis Carroll 
description: Guiding the reader through the period surrounding the production of Carroll's best-known works, this book contains extracts from his letters to family, friends and colleagues, to Alice Liddell, the inspiration behind the original "Alice", and to other young girls he befriended, to his illustrator, Tenniel, and to eminent writers and artists such as Tennyson and Rossetti. Excerpts from Carroll's diaries, plus many of his own photographic portraits, give further insights into this complex man, while the illustrations, which include many of his own photographs, suggest the visual sources that might have fired his imagination and depict the Victorian world in which he lived.
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  # The Man Without a Temperament
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Katherine Mansfield
  
  
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  He stood at the hall door turning the ring, turning the heavy signet ring upon
  his little finger
  
  
  while his glance travelled coolly, deliberately, over the round tables and
  basket chairs scattered
  
  
  about the glassed-in veranda. He pursed his lips—he might have been going to
  whistle—but he
  
  
  did not whistle—only turned the ring—turned the ring on his pink, freshly
  washed hands.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Over in the corner sat The Two Topknots, drinking a decoction they always
  drank at this
  
  
  hour—something whitish, greyish, in glasses, with little husks floating on the
  top—and rooting
  
  
  in a tin full of paper shavings for pieces of speckled biscuit, which they
  broke, dropped into the
  
  
  glasses and