Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 by Various
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page 45 of 56 (80%)
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* * * * * THE BANK'S MISTAKE. "I wish," said Francesca, "you would explain something to me." "I am full," I said, "of explanations of every conceivable difficulty. You have only to tap me and an explanation will come bubbling out." "I am not sure that I want the bubbling sort. On the whole I think I prefer the still waters that run deep." "Those too can be provided for you. All you have got to do is to ask." "What a comfort it is," she said, "to live constantly in the mild and magnificent eye of an encyclopædia." "Yes," I said, "it saves a lot of running about, doesn't it? Come now, fire off your question." "What is your opinion of the Bank of England?" "The Bank of England?" I gasped. "One doesn't have opinions of the Bank of England. One just accepts it, you know, and there you are." "Yes," she said, "that's exactly what I felt about it. I thought it was one of the signs of our superiority to everybody else, with its crisp banknotes and all that." |
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