[When William Came by Saki]@TWC D-Link bookWhen William Came CHAPTER III: "THE METSKIE TSAR" 16/21
But those represent comparatively a few out of the many.
The great businesses and the small businesses must go on, people must be fed and clothed and housed and medically treated, and their thousand-and-one wants and necessities supplied.
Look at me, for instance; however much I loathe coming under a foreign domination and paying taxes to an alien government, I can't abandon my practice and my patients, and set up anew in Toronto or Allahabad, and if I could, some other doctor would have to take my place here.
I or that other doctor must have our servants and motors and food and furniture and newspapers, even our sport.
The golf links and the hunting field have been well-nigh deserted since the war, but they are beginning to get back their votaries because out-door sport has become a necessity, and a very rational necessity, with numbers of men who have to work otherwise under unnatural and exacting conditions. That is one factor of the situation.
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