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The Toys of Peace, and other papers
Saki
The Toys of Peace, and other papers
Saki
Book Excerpt: ...it would be very tiresome having to telephone to some unsympathetic private secretary, describing Louise to him and asking to have her sent back in time for dinner. Fortunately, I didn't go to any place of devotion, though I did get mixed up with a Salvation Army procession. It was quite interesting to be at close quarters with them, they're so absolutely different to what they used to be when I first remember them in the 'eighties. They used to go about then unkempt and dishevelled, in a sort of smiling rage with the world, and now they're spruce and jaunty and flamboyantly decorative, like a geranium bed with religious convictions. Laura Kettleway was going on about them in the lift of the Dover Street Tube the other day, saying what a lot of good work they did, and what a loss it would have been if they'd never existed. 'If they had never existed, ' I said, 'Granville Barker would have been certain to have invented something that looked exactly like them.' If you say things like that, quite loud, in a Tube..
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 26, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9798694953184 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 178 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 10 mm · 244 g |
Language | English |
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