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An excerpt from English Eccentrics by Edith Sitwell Publication date 1994 Source: https://archive.org/details/englisheccentric0000edit_r1x9/page/25/mode/1up admiration and satisfaction, the sum of seven hundred pounds. But if, driven to madness by the intolerable tickling of the beard, or the scratching of the camlet robe, he broke any of the conditions laid down, he was not to receive a penny! It is a melancholy fact that the Ornamental Hermit stayed in his retreat for exactly three weeks ! But a gentleman living near Preston, Lancashire, had better luck with his hermit. He had advertised in the papers, offering a salary of £go a year for life, to any man who would live for seven years underground, without seeing any human being, and without cut- ting his hair, beard, toe-nails, or finger-nails. The advertisement was answered immediately, and the happy advertiser prepared an apartment underground which, as Mr Timbs assures us, was "very commodious, with a cold bath, a chamber organ, as many books as the occupier pleases, and provisions served from the gentleman' own table'. The ornamental occupant bloomed, unseen, in this retreat for the space of four years. But, unseen as he was, it is a little difficult to guess what pleasure his employer can have got out of the matter.
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An excerpt from English Eccentrics by Edith Sitwell Publication date 1994 Source: https://archive.org/details/englisheccentric0000edit_r1x9/page/25/mode/1up admiration and satisfaction, the sum of seven hundred pounds. But if, driven to madness by the intolerable tickling of the beard, or the scratching of the camlet robe, he broke any of the conditions laid down, he was not to receive a penny! It is a melancholy fact that the Ornamental Hermit stayed in his retreat for exactly three weeks ! But a gentleman living near Preston, Lancashire, had better luck with his hermit. He had advertised in the papers, offering a salary of £go a year for life, to any man who would live for seven years underground, without seeing any human being, and without cut- ting his hair, beard, toe-nails, or finger-nails. The advertisement was answered immediately, and the happy advertiser prepared an apartment underground which, as Mr Timbs assures us, was "very commodious, with a cold bath, a chamber organ, as many books as the occupier pleases, and provisions served from the gentleman' own table'. The ornamental occupant bloomed, unseen, in this retreat for the space of four years. But, unseen as he was, it is a little difficult to guess what pleasure his employer can have got out of the matter.
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