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And I take it she talks to friends of hers aboutpeople of whom she never talks
to me.
I have known for years past thatit was on the cards. Consequently it is
the last solution I could haveexpected in politics. Oh really, Mr Vanhattan,
that was a very very long timeago.
When we still owe America that old war debt.
You think so because you have no imagination.
You think youcan do without me;
and I know that I cannot do without you. Well, I think the open air and the
evening light will havea quieting effect on them.
But there would be some
innocent fun in outwittinghim.
Who can think of tea at such a moment as
this?
And is that all I am to report to the President, sir?
Centuries count for
but little in the lifetimes ofgreat nations, sir.
Well see it shifted to
Melbourne or Montreal orJohannesburg first. There is a tapping at the door;they
do not hear it.
I never resist temptation, because I have foundthat things that
are bad for me do not tempt me.
I amabdicating to save the monarchy, not to
destroy it. So much the worse for me when Ihave to fight them.
King may be
goodenough for this little island; but if we come in we shall requiresomething
grander. I have not time to attend to theeighteenth century and the prodigal
son at this moment.
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
It
is a moment inwhich an old tie is being broken.
You are worse than blind: you
havelow tastes.
When we still owe America that old war debt. And yet that man
wasutterly infatuated with your beauty when he married you. The smallest
derogation toJemimas dignity would hit me like the lash of a whip across
theface.
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