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The influx of odious parents, he writes on 18. 6. 16'', with their loathy, freckled criminals of offspring has flustered the waiters and is spoiling all my meals. What I do now is to change for dinner after all and come in exactly an hour late for meals. They have some way of keeping the food—such as it is—piping hot; and so I do not suffer unduly for avoiding the sight of some, at least, of the carroty-headed boys and their thick-ankled sisters''

''Ah well! I can begin to count the days until I am back among you; and a glad day that will be for me! Nobody in the world, I think, hates either rest or enjoyment so much as I do.''

''Good-bye. I am going for a walk. I tell you frankly, I am going for a walk. I tell you this frankly''

On Teixeira's return to the department, our correspondence was suspended until I went to Cornwall for a week's leave in August. When I wrote in praise of my surroundings, he replied with a warning:

''You are probably too young ever to have heard of a play-actress  who brought a breach of promise action and earned the then record damages of £10,000. She took a cottage''