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Eustace and Hilda

Book by L.P. Hartley · 2 quotes · Pleasure, Whisky, Work

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“For a moment Eustace contemplated an existence spent in pleasing himself. How would he set about it? He had been told by precept, and had learned from experience, that the things he did to please himself usually ended in making other people grieved and angry, and were therefore wrong. Was he to spend his life in continuous wrong-doing, and in making other people cross? There would be no pleasure in that. Indeed what pleasure was there, except in living up to people's good opinion of him?”

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“"Will you, as they say, say when?" he asked, standing at Eustace's elbow with the whisky decanter and a glass. "Stop, stop I've got to sit up and do some work when I get back." "Work, work, the word is always on your lips, Eustace, but I never see you doing any, I'm glad to say." "I put it away when you come, of course," said Eustace. "I take it out when Hilda comes." "I think I shall send for her."”

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