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Updated: May 19, 2025

It was perhaps his first attempt at irony, and he could not help thinking how good it was. But old Heythorp preserved a deadly silence. He looked like a stuffed man, a regular Aunt Sally sitting there, with the fixed red in his cheeks, his stivered hair, square block of a body, and no neck that you could see-only wanting the pipe in his mouth! Could there really be danger from such an old idol?

John Galsworthy - Five Tales