That was one of my earliest successes, and it still brings me in royalties. And then there is⁠—‘Esmeralda, when I first beheld her,’ and ‘Fair Teresa, how I love to please her,’ both of those have been fairly popular. And there is one rather dreadful one,” continued Septimus, flushing deep carmine, “which has brought me in more money than any of the others:

‘Lively little Lucie

With her naughty

nez retroussé

.’