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Retired Army men, retired Civil Servants—that type. Nice decent folk; the worst you could say of them was that they might be a bit dull.
it’s hard to get a job nowadays when you’ve nothing to say for yourself except that you’ve had a public-school education!
I wouldn’t tell a soul.” “People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.
a gentleman isn’t himself in his judgment when it comes to a young woman being in question.
most of what I saw in her I put there myself.
The truth is, you see, that most people—and I don’t exclude policemen—are far too trusting for this wicked world. They believe what is told them. I never do. I’m afraid I always like to prove a thing for myself.”
