Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note]… - Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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About Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early 20th century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.

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Pen Names: E.(Edmund) Clerihew

Alternative Names: E. C. Bentley

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Chapman & Hall
Swore not at all.
Mr Chapman's yea was yea,
And Mr Hall's nay was nay.

Edward the Confessor
Slept under the dresser.
When that began to pall,
He slept in the hall.

Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?

Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief. - Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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