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Fabers in great multitudes hoarding provisions, riotous crowds attacking shops, moratorium, shut banks and waiting queues. Was it possible for the whole system to break down through a shock to its confidence? Without any sense of incongruity the dignified pacification of the planet had given place in his mind to these more intimate possibilities.
In a social and economic system that has grown just anyhow.... Never been planned.... In a world full of Mrs. Fabers...." "Moratorium?" said Hugh over his Daily News. "In relation to debts and so on? Modern side you sent me to, Daddy. I live at hand to mouth in etymology. Mors and crematorium do we burn our bills instead of paying them?" "Moratorium," reflected Mr. Britling; "Moratorium.
The child draws before he writes, and savages begin their language with pictures; but, we wiseacres of this age of books let our young folks drop their slate pencils and their Fabers, and practice with their Gillotts and their Esterbrooks. Let us say, in every school and in every house, the child must not only learn to read and write, he must learn to draw.
He heard a rustle behind him, and turned to face his wife. "Do you think," she asked, "that there is any chance of a shortage of food?" "If all the Mrs. Fabers in the world run and grab " "Then every one must grab. I haven't much in the way of stores in the house." "H'm," said Mr. Britling, and reflected.... "I don't think we must buy stores now." "But if we are short."
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