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...even today?' 'Yes, I know it and I expected a spear between my ribs yesterday, especially when I was baptizing your young men.' 'What would you have done in such a case?' 'During the service I would have done nothing and would have forgiven those who had speared me.' 'Hm, hm, but afterwards...
...matter of handkerchiefs were London's arbiters of gentlemanly elegance inclined to be lenient. Of course two handkerchiefs a day ("one to show, one to blow") was still the ironclad rule, but in a pinch, Savile Row's spokesmen agreed, a hard-pressed gentleman might be forgiven for using yesterday's shower for today's blower...
Perhaps some of the poetry is too bright for our modern, well-lit stages. But much can be forgiven Mr. Fry because his play is such delightful entertainment. Some suitable quotations seem here in order...
...Greatest Sacrifice." In a world that has forgotten much and forgiven more, Pablo Casals has forgiven and forgotten nothing. The French, when they made him a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, said of him: "He is a conscience of our time...
...fact, Emmanuel writes, that the French government had sent the poet to the Eastern European countries on an official lecture tour similar to his journey to the U.S. in 1948. After his trip to the Balkans, the poet wrote some disillusioned articles for which the Communists have not forgiven him, and while in Rumania, he was branded an American agent by the Rumanian press...