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Thursday, 7 March 2019

A very sacred thing






 For to a girl brought up in the principles of the High Church the truth is a very sacred thing. She keeps it to herself.

Stephen Leacock - Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich (1914)

4 comments:

Sam Vega said...

And, interestingly, TM's dad was rather high on the candle. I wonder if she shares her real thoughts with her European friends, and just keeps them private from us Brits?

A K Haart said...

Sam - she probably does because it is fairly obvious that she is not trying to negotiate a straightforward way of leaving the EU.

Doonhamer said...

You misspelled "Scared".

A K Haart said...

Doonhamer - I wish I'd thought of that.