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The office has beenfull of people all the morning.
One thatwould get you
appreciated and perhaps a little talked about? You knowthat there is a Society
called the League of Nations Union, dontyou?
It was opened by theConservative
candidate: an innocent young lad rolling in money.
But theres nothing to do
here that any common typist couldntdo. And thereis a correspondence about the
protection of professional titlesthat takes up half my time. Oh no: that would
be the end of all liberty. So areall the judges and all the officials, even the
road sweepers. I tell you I have to do all the intellectual co-operation.
The
woman herself is quite incapable of it.
We shant have it all to ourselvesany
more. I was graciously allowed to introduce my daughters to goodQueen Victoria.
Have you had any correspondence about this business? He neverspoke to me after
I had to kill the woman we both loved more thanwe loved oneanother. The Earthly
Paradise isthe most civilized country in the world. No mans life would be safe
in Russia if suchdoctrines were propagated there. Oh, if there is any blame I
am ready to take it all onmyself. Hispeople fixed me up for Geneva all right.
Two months ago an extraordinary change came over her.
Wherever I go I always
find that lots of people think as I do. Excuse me; but does anyone here speak
English?
We wereideally happy with this excellent woman for years. Nothing but
the gravest emergency couldhave forced me to undertake it. Our police have
founda secret document of your State Church, called the Thirty-nineArticles.
Planted on me by the Communists tomake their dreadful propaganda in my
household!
No, not that one: one of its legs isnt safe: its there onlyfor
show.
Say a word against the Empire, and you have finished with BegoniaBrown.
You tell me that the inhabitants of Peckham are disliked: no doubtthey deserve
it. We shant have it all to ourselvesany more.
Our chiefs are scattered over
Europe, veryeminent persons, you know.
So areall the judges and all the
officials, even the road sweepers.
Can I deny that there aregood reasons for
disliking Jews?
I am respectable; and Imean to keep respectable. Are you the
president of the Intellectual Co-operationCommittee of the League of Nations?
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