Did I understand you to say that frivolityis a
common English failing? Shallwe stop playing at ghosts, and accept one another for
conveniencesake as real people?
But mind, Arthur, I must havetwelve new
aeroplane-carrying battleships.
That is not oriental emotion: it is
BritishCommonsense.
I doubt if the rest of the program will come off.
If I have another five thousand men and a rise on the oldwages, Ill answer for the
free Englishmen.
The ghosts from the past are those who are behind
thetimes, and can only drag the present back. Got out at the wrong sideof the bed
this morning, eh?
We may as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
State imports only, to be sold at Stateregulated prices. In short, you will make
Utopian promises that you knowvery well will never be carried out.
The political machine will not stopfor you. They
retreat precipitately through the masked door. This bank nationalization is good
business for them:theyll just jump at it.
We could make up for them in aeroplanes
andsubmarines.
Not unless you have something else to do. To meit
means nothing, because I am a ghost from the future.
I find it hard to believe that the Mayor ever
burntthe midnight oil reading Marx.
But the financiers and promoters wont look at small
businesses.
May I reserve a bedroom and a privatestudy for you?
I wishyou would create some immediate class of honest folk.
Is it you or I who have piloted England on to the
rocks? Which of you starves first when it comes to thepoint? He rubs his eyes;shakes
himself; looks again.
I have to say that you are a parcel of blind fools.
Then Flavia cut in and told him who we were and that oldBasham was like a father to
us. I am afraid I cannot get onwith my speech while you are there ordering my
funeral. Theres a career forthem in the navy now that Arthur is at the
helm.
Because out of those wagesthe laborer has to pay
half or quarter as rent to the landlord. But we need not compel the workers to work:
they areworking already. He took the chair for me once at an election meeting.
Abrain underexercised is far more injurious to health than an underexercised
body.
By George, Ill teachAlderwoman Aloysia Brollikins
to give herself airs.