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...of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England... ...will perceive, therefore, that our friendship has been a young-middle-aged affair, since we were all of us of quite quiet dispositions, the Ashburnham... ...noon and watching the min- iature golf, you would have said that, as human affairs go, we were an extraordinarily safe castle. We were, if you will, o... ...n. The rest of the field were just anywhere. It was only a scratch sort of affair. Ashburnham was quite close to the rails not five yards from us and ... ... let his women be troublesome? Is he, above all, likely to babble about my affairs?” And, suddenly, into those cold, slightly defiant, almost defensiv... ...he victim of the law. I don’t mean to say that he saw himself as a kind of Dreyfus. The law, practically, was quite kind to him. It stated that in its...
...m. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows....