A Caricature

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From The Best of Saki, edited by Martin Stephen

THE DOWAGER LADY BEANFORD

"Susan Lady Beanford was a vigorous old woman who had coquetted with imaginary ill-health for the greater part of a lifetime; Clovis Sangrail irreverently declared that she had caught a chill at the Coronation of Queen Victoria and had never let it go again."

From Louise

Pictures from an Exhibition

Photos by Joe Garvin, bless 'im.

Reginald on Christmas Presents

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From The Complete Works of Saki, by H. H. Munro

POOR WALDO

"'Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death,' said Clovis..."

From The Feast of Nemesis

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From The Complete Works of Saki, by H. H. Munro

CLOVIS CURED

"Whenever I feel in the least tempted to be business-like or methodical or even decently industrious I go to Kensal Green and look at the graves of those who died in business."

From Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business

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From The Short Stories of Saki (H. H. Munro)

THERE IS

"'There is such a thing as letting one's aesthetic sense override one's moral sense,' said Mrs. Panstreppon. 'I believe you would have condoned the South Sea Bubble and the persecution of the Albigenses if they had been carried out in effective color schemes.'"

From Hyacinth

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From When William Came, by Saki

AT THE CLUB

"He entered with a diffident sense of intrusion, conscious that his standing as a member might not be recognized by the keepers of the door; in a moment, however, he realized that a rajah's escort of elephants might almost have marched through the entrance hall and vestibule without challenge."

From Chapter XV, The Intelligent Anticipator of Wants

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From The Toys of Peace, by Saki

DIRECT

"To go direct from a shopping expedition to a tea-party was what was known locally as 'living in a whirl.'"

From Quail Seed

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From Reginald and Reginald in Russia, by Saki

TEMPTATION

"Temptation came to him, in middle age, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason than that he didn't get one in December."

From Lady Anne's Reticence

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From Beasts and Super-Beasts, by Saki

QUITE INNOCENTLY

"He trotted out some well-worn chestnut as the latest thing in good stories, and I remarked, quite innocently, that I never could remember if it was George II or James II who was so fond of that particular story, and now, he regards me with politely-draped dislike."

From The Forbidden Buzzards

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From The Square Egg, by Saki

TREMENDOUS SYMPATHY

"He had tremendous sympathy for young men struggling to get on, and in practical ways helped many a lame dog."

Last line of Ethel M. Munro's brief (and terribly proper) biography of her brother, Hector Munro, aka "Saki"