'That', he replied
cordially, 'is precisely what it isn't anything else but.' |
Though not often given to theological speculation, Lord Emsworth
was wondering why Providence, if obliged to make head-gardeners, had found it necessary to make them so Scotch.
In the case of Angus McAllister, why, going a step farther, have made him a human being at all?
All the ingredients of a first-class mule simply thrown away. He felt that he might have
liked Angus McAllister if he had been a mule. |
'Do you know Thomas Otway?' 'I don't believe so. Pal of yours?' 'Seventeenth century dramatist. Wrote The Orphan, in which play these words occur: "What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was ’t betrayed the Capitol? A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years’ war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman! Deceitful, damnable, destructive woman!" Otway knew what he was talking about; he couldn't have put it better if he'd known Roberta Wickham personally.' |