The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
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Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
Eleanor hated boys, and she would have liked to have whipped this one long and often. It was perhaps the yearning of a woman who had no children of her own.
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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
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To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.
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I found everyone talking nervously and feverishly of the weather and the war in South Africa, except Reginald, who was reclining in a comfortable chair with the dreamy, far-away look that a volcano might wear just after it had desolated entire villages.
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I came here to get freedom from the inane interruptions of the mentally deficient, but it seems I asked too much of fate.
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And they tried to rag me in the smoking room about not being able to hit a bird at five yards, a sort of bovine ragging that suggested cows buzzing round a gadfly and thinking they were teasing it. So I got up the next morning at early dawn, I know it was dawn, because there were lark-noises in the sky, and the grass looked as if it had been left out all night.
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A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
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It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
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Madame was not best pleased at being contradicted on a professional matter, and when Madame lost her temper you usually found it afterwards in the bill.
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