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nter skating. Don't see any sense
making fun of real trouble.'
I can cap your story with another said the Philosopher. Jim sent
me a couple of seats for one of his first nights a month or two ago. They
did not reach me till four o'clock in the afternoon. I went down to the
club to see if I could pick up anybody. The only man there I knew at all
was a rather quiet young fellowa new member. He had just taken
Bates's chambers in Staple Inn--you have met himI think. He didn't
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know many people then and was grateful for my invitation. The play
was one of those Palais Royal farces-- it cannot matter whichthey are all
exactly alike. The fun consists of somebody's trying to sin without being
found out. It always goes well. The British public invariably welcomes
the themeprovided it be dealt with in a merry fashion. It is only the
serious discussion of evil that shocks us. There was the usual banging of
doors and the usual screaming. Everybody was laughing around us.
My young friend sat with rather a curious fixed smile upon his face.
'Fairly well constructed' I said to himas the second curtain fell amid yells
of delight. 'Yes' he answered'I suppose it's very funny.' I looke [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]