I can repay hospitality ouly by strict attention to the humble, arduous process of making myself agreeable. When I go up to dress for dinner I have always a strong impulse to go to bed and sleep of! my fatigue ; and it is only by exerting all my will-power that I can array myself for the final labours : to wit, making myself agreeable to some man or woman for a mi note or two before dinner, to two women during dinner, to men after dinner, then again to women in the drawing-room and then once more to men in the smoking-room. It ;t dog's life. But one has to have suilered before one gets the full savour out of joy. And 1 do not grumble at the price 1 have to pay for the sensation of basking at length in solitude and the glow of my own fireside. —Max Beer* Do inn.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 355, 26 April 1911, Page 3
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152Untitled King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 355, 26 April 1911, Page 3
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