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The worst of it is that Lady D. agreed with you Seriously, however: suppose Winston were to use a perfectly commonplace metaphor, to say, e. g.'', that he had ordered the Gallipoli expedition off his own bat. Would that for all time raise those four words from the commonplace to the exceptional? Could you never employ that phrase except in "quotes"?''

''Be sensible. Do not fight against your rescuer. Let me, when I receive the Royal Humane Society's medal, feel that my gallant efforts were not in vain, that I succeeded in saving your life and soul!''

''P. S. An invitation to the Oppenheim wedding has just arrived. Like the man who answered the big-game-hunter's advertisement, I'm not going.'' *