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“Things, since you left, have not gone well with me: they have taken me from a place where there was gin to a place where there is no gin[.]”
“I should explain in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising that Daphne and I are now bosom friends. That is to say, she seems to think we are; and I do not feel that I know h...”
“You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself wi...”
“Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successful practice at the Bar, to pay any income tax. The truth is, I think, that she di...”
“On my first day in London I made an early start. Reaching the Public Record Office not much after ten, I soon secured the papers I needed for my research and settled in my place. I became, as is th...”
“In order to deceive others, it is necessary also to deceive oneself. The actor playing Hamlet must indeed believe that he is the Prince of Denmark, though when he leaves the stage he will usually r...”
“I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps ...”
“I should explain — in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising — that Daphne and I are now bosom friends. That is to say, she seems to think we are; and I do not feel that I know...”
