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Updated: May 1, 2025

Is he a pleasant man personally?" "I dare say he is pleasant enough at a dinner-table, and I'll allow that he is varry unpleasant at a piece table in the Town Hall. But webs of stuff and pieces of cloth naturally lock up a man's best self. He wouldn't hev got back to be Akers of Akerside if things wern't that way ordered." This Club news troubled John.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr - The Measure of a Man