It's perfectly safe to think about it.

You have no idea, Mrs.Paige, what warlike sentiments I cautiously entertain in my office chair." She turned nervously, with a sunny glint of gold hair and fluttering ribbons: "Are you _never_ perfectly serious, Mr.Berkley?
Even at such a moment as this ?" "Always," he insisted.

"I was only philosophising upon these scenes of inexpensive patriotism which fill even the most urbane and peaceful among us full of truculence.

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