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Would I mind I should think not. I should like nothing better. It did one good to be in contact with this youthful Optimist and listen to his blithe and pleasing prattle he was so hopeful, so philosophic, so cheery; his whole nature seemed to exhale the golden words Never say die. And no wonder. He ought to have been at the front, but some guardian angel in the haute finance had dumped him into this soft and safe job it was enough to make anybody cheerful. One should be cautious, none the less, how one criticises the action of the authorities. Maybe they kept him at the Emergency Bureau for the express purpose of infusing confidence, by his bright manner, into the minds of despondent patriots like myself, and of keeping the flag flying in a general way - a task for which he, a German Jew, was pre-eminently fitted.
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Would I mind I should think not. I should like nothing better. It did one good to be in contact with this youthful Optimist and listen to his blithe and pleasing prattle he was so hopeful, so philosophic, so cheery; his whole nature seemed to exhale the golden words Never say die. And no wonder. He ought to have been at the front, but some guardian angel in the haute finance had dumped him into this soft and safe job it was enough to make anybody cheerful. One should be cautious, none the less, how one criticises the action of the authorities. Maybe they kept him at the Emergency Bureau for the express purpose of infusing confidence, by his bright manner, into the minds of despondent patriots like myself, and of keeping the flag flying in a general way - a task for which he, a German Jew, was pre-eminently fitted.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Norman Douglas lived a long and scandalous life. Born in 1868, the son of a Scottish father and Austrian mother, he was a lifelong hedonist, and spent much of his time 'hopping it' across borders to avoid arrest. Douglas was at once the most irascible, intolerant and kindest of men. He was also a writer of near-genius. He died in 1952.
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