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All in all Beatrice O’Hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again; a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about; a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.
Brilliant!
“If one can’t be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”
Great line.
His masters considered him idle, unreliable and superficially clever.
Sounds like me!
