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Thackenbury; "and, anyhow, I don't see how you could introduce a system of primitive schoolboy vengeance into civilised adult life. We haven't outgrown our passions, but we are supposed to have learned how to keep them within strictly decorous limits."
You wouldn't find any truffles but you would find a great peace, such as no amount of present- giving could ever bestow." "I shouldn't," said Mrs. Thackenbury, though her air of protest sounded a bit forced; "I should feel rather a worm for doing such a thing."
But no licence is allowed in the opposite direction." "Opposite direction; what opposite direction?" queried Mrs. Thackenbury. "There is no outlet for demonstrating your feelings towards people whom you simply loathe. That is really the crying need of our modern civilisation.
A comfortable hammock on a warm afternoon would appeal to his indolent tastes, and then, when he was getting drowsy, a lighted fusee thrown into the nest would bring the wasps out in an indignant mass, and they would soon find a 'home away from home' on Waldo's fat body. It takes some doing to get out of a hammock in a hurry." "They might sting him to death," protested Mrs. Thackenbury.
In this case they would probably burst into tears when their dish is mentioned. It would be a heavenly picnic." Mrs. Thackenbury was silent for a moment; she was probably making a mental list of the people she would like to invite to the Duke Humphrey picnic.
"You exaggerate the power of upheaval which a worm would be able to bring into play in the limited time available," said Clovis; "if you put in a strenuous ten minutes with a really useful fork, the result ought to suggest the operations of an unusually masterful mole or a badger in a hurry." "They might guess I had done it," said Mrs. Thackenbury.
"It would require no ordinary human strategy to lose Agnes Blaik when luncheon was imminent: in fact, I don't believe it could be done." "Then have all the other guests, people whom you dislike, and lose the luncheon. It could have been sent by accident in the wrong direction." "It would be a ghastly picnic," said Mrs. Thackenbury.
"His mother would be my enemy for life," said Mrs. Thackenbury. "That would be one greeting less to exchange at Christmas," said Clovis. It was the season of sales.
The doctors will not let her attend anything at all exciting, such as a drawing-room meeting or a Fabian conference; it is doubtful, indeed, whether she wants to. "It's a good thing that Saint Valentine's Day has dropped out of vogue," said Mrs. Thackenbury; "what with Christmas and New Year and Easter, not to speak of birthdays, there are quite enough remembrance days as it is.
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