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Title: Memories
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933 Earl, Maud
Subjects: Dogs -- Legends and stories
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons

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.4^^^ IkfUn^L ^ Url^/kn ^ ^ JTJin-tJLx/g^ JuJa M^u^^^ MEMORIES for a liver-coloured lass of our village, not quiteof his own castCj but a wholesome if some-what elderly girl, with loving and sphinx-likeeyes. Their children, alas, were not for thisworld, and soon departed. Nor was he a fighting dog; but once attacked,he lacked a sense of values, being unable todistinguish between dogs that he could beatand dogs with whom he had no earthly. Itwas, in fact, as well to interfere at once,especially in the matter of retrievers, for henever forgot having in his youth been attackedby a retriever from behind. No, he never for-got, and never forgave, an enemy. Only amonth before that day of which I cannot speak,being very old and ill, he engaged an Irishterrier on whose impudence he had long had his eye, and routed him. And how a battle 60
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^et^ y^ tr^< ^^ ^, ^ ^t^^L^.j^Kyit^/CT^Tv^.^e^ M E M O R I E S cheered his spirit! He was certainly no Chris-tian ; but, allowing for essential dotj, he wasvery much a gentleman. And I do think thatmost of us who live on this earth these dayswould rather leave it with that label on us thanthe other. For to be a Christian, as Tolstoyunderstood the word—and no one else inour time lias had logic and love of truth enoughto give it coherent meaning—is (to be quitesincere) not suited to men of Western blood.Whereas—to be a gentleman ! It is a far cry,but perhaps it can be done. In him, at allevents, there was no pettiness, no meanness, andno cruelty, and though he fell below his idealat times, this never altered the true look of hiseyes, nor the simple loyalty in his soul. But what a crowd of memories come back, bringing with them the perfume of fallen days ! 63 MEMORIES What delights and glamour, what long hours ofeffort, discouragements, and secret fears did henot watch over—ou

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