The Relentless City
By E. F. Benson
4 Sep, 2019
Brief Extract...Bertie Keynes hailed this with obvious relief. It was easier for him to put up his father's ideas for his friend, if he chose, to box with than receive the attack on his own person. He did not care in the least how much Charlie attack
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Brief Extract...Bertie Keynes hailed this with obvious relief. It was easier for him to put up his father's ideas for his friend, if he chose, to box with than receive the attack on his own person. He did not care in the least how much Charlie attacked his father's opinions on matrimony; nor, on the other hand, would the Marquis of Bolton care either, because the fact of his never caring for anything was so widely known as to have been abbreviated like a sort of hall-mark into his nick-name of Gallio. Less