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1 " Mrs. Cricks had a long family and was therefore licensed in the eyes of her world to have a short temper. "
― Saki , The Complete Short Stories
2 " You see the river has overflowed its banks as well.""Good gracious! Have any lives been lost?""Heaps, I should say. The second housemaid has already identified three bodies that have floated past the billiard-room window as being the young man she's engaged to. Either she's engaged to a large assortment of the population round here or else she's very careless at identification. Of course it may be the same body coming round again and again in a swirl; I hadn't thought of that. "
