Captain Will Laurence

[“I would not speak of a man’s private affairs in public, but I assure you I have nothing in my private affairs to be ashamed of. I regret very much that I cannot boast of extensive reading, but it is certainly not for want of trying; I am constantly put off by the queer spelling and syntax used by most authors of books. Since I know I could do much better myself, I have turned at last to writing my own memoirs.”,”I should be eminently unsuitable for the task. I know too much of books, women and poetry.”,”As it happens, I have reported somewhat fully the events of the evening to the First Lord, though not with such a requirement. But if Captain Little is entirely desirous of my account, I shall be glad to write it down.”]

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