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The Angel and the Author - and Others

CHAPTER XV
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The bishops and the generals might have told each other stories, but could not before the ladies.

My clergyman friend stood the awful solemnity of three evenings, then cautiously felt his way towards revelry.

He started with an intellectual game called "Quotations." You write down quotations on a piece of paper, and the players have to add the author's name.

It roped in four old ladies, and the youngest bishop.

One or two generals tried a round, but not being familiar with quotations voted the game slow.
The next night my friend tried "Consequences." "Saucy Miss A.met the gay General B.in"-- most unlikely places.


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