On embarking by means of a narrow gangway-a plank possessed of an uncontrollable desire to "tip-up" at unexpected and disconcerting moments-one entered first a small vestibule, or "ante-cabin," which held our big boxes and opened into the drawing-room-quite a roomy apartment, about fifteen feet by ten feet, fitted with a fireplace, a rough writing-table, and overmantel, surmounted by a photograph-something faded-of Mrs. langtry!
"A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil"
T. R. Swinburne
Or, Pop Goes The langtry Bubble.
"Oscar Wilde"
Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
In a stationer's to-day I saw a photo of you in a case with those of Mrs. Cornwallis West, langtry and Wheeler, there were just the four; you all sold, my darling, at five shillings each.
"A Heart-Song of To-day"
Annie Gregg Savigny
