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Usage examples of aspinwall.

I might have dropped it if Aspinwall had not so clearly revealed that he wants me to do so, but I shall keep it on to spite him, even if the opera goes up the flue in the process.

He wanted to write his opera: he must somehow get money to live while doing so, and to pay the heavy costs involved: he would not give up Lantern because he was convinced that somewhere in London a malignant demon named Stanhope Aspinwall was consumed with the desire that he should do so.

And when, a few weeks later, Giles had given a recital of his work at Wigmore Hall, and Aspinwall had once again praised her warmly, and found some faults in the music, Giles became quite impossible.

He made a point of using the paper for which Aspinwall wrote in order to wrap his garbage.

On one embarrassing occasion he took Monica to a concert and, finding that they were sitting behind Aspinwall (which he swore he had not arranged) he badgered the critic by tapping on the back of his seat, and making insulting remarks, just loud enough to be heard, in the intervals.

He even began to write obscenely abusive letters to Aspinwall, but Monica and Bun Eccles intercepted them, and so far as they could judge, none had escaped their watch.

But Stanhope Aspinwall, in two long articles which he wrote about the new opera, rebuked them sharply.

Mr Revelstoke had spoken then in his usual amusingly unrestrained fashion of a critique of his opera The Golden Asse, written by Stanhope Aspinwall of the Sunday Argus, which she had brought to him.

The critique found with the body referred to the revised version of the composer's opera which Mr Aspinwall had travelled to Venice to see within the past fortnight.

Among musical people there was a sudden vogue for Giles Revelstoke, much of it attributable to Stanhope Aspinwall, whose two commemorative articles, published on successive Sundays in the Argus, set off the enthusiasm of lesser men.

It's just that Mr Aspinwall has been so lavish with his praise for him.

And she told him about Bun Eccles, about Stanhope Aspinwall, about Mrs Hopkin-Griffiths.

Nobody thought Aspinwall had done so -- except himself, and it may teach him to mind his Ps and Qs in future -- because his notice was about ten lines of blame, and nearly a column of high praise.

This, and the fact that Aspinwall rather than himself had been asked to write the appreciation of Giles which appeared in that same programme, had made Tuke very waspish, and he had threatened to sue Monica for seizing the physical assets (a cardboard box of sub­scribers' cards, five muddled files of dog-eared correspondence, a complete run of the magazine, and three cartons of assorted trash) of Lantern.

As it did so, Aspinwall uttered a frightful gurgling cry, and Phillips and de Maigny saw his face convulsed with a wilder, deep and more hideous epilepsy of stark panic than ever they had seen on human countenance before.