’t take you back into your office, will they?’
Tietjens said:
‘No, sir. Beats Studio The Department will not take me back. Every one who has served in this war will be a marked man for a long time after it is over. That’s proper enough. We’re having our fun now.’
The general said:
‘You say Wayne Rooney Drakt the wildest things.’
Tietjens answered:
‘You generally find the things I say come true, sir. Could we get this over? Ruggles told my father what he did because it is not a good thing to belong to the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries in the twentieth. Or really, because it is not good to have taken one’s public-school’s ethical system seriously. I am really, sir, the English public schoolboy. That’s an eighteenth-century product. What with the love of truth that — God help me! — they Lionel Messi Tröja rammed into me at Clifton and the belief Arnold forced upon Rugby that the vilest of sins — the vilest of all sins — is to peach to Columbus Blue Jackets Drakter the head master! That’s me, sir. Other men get over their schooling. I Chicago Bears Kvinnor never have. I remain adolescent. These things are obsessions with me. Complexes, sir!’
The general said:
‘All this seems to be very wild . . . What’s this about peaching to a head master?’
Tietjens said:
‘For a swan song, it’s not wild, sir. You’re asking for a swan song. I am to go up into the line so that the morals of the troops in your command may not be contaminated by the contemplation of my marital infelicities.’
The general said:
‘You don’t want to Scarpe Hogan Interactive Uomo go back to England, do you?’ Tietjens exclaimed:
‘Certainly not! Very certainly not! I can never go home. I have to go underground somewhere. If I went back to England there would be nothing for me but going underground by suicide.’
The general said:
‘You see all that? I can give you testimonials . . . ’
Tietjens asked:
‘Who couldn’t see Dame Minnesota Wild that it’s impossible?’
The general said:
‘But . . . suicide! You won’t do that. As you said: think of your son.’
Tietjens said:
‘No, |
