The Plain Man and His Wife by Arnold Bennett
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Once, perhaps in a parable, the plain man travelling met another traveller. And the plain man demanded of the traveller: "Where are you going to?" The traveller replied: "Now I come to think of it, I don't know." The plain man was ruffled by this insensate answer. He said: "But you are travelling?" The traveller replied: "Yes." The plain man, beginning to be annoyed, said: "Have you never asked yourself where you are going to?" "I have not." "But do you mean to tell me," protested the plain man, now irritated, "that you are putting yourself to all this trouble, peril, and expense of trains and steamers, without having asked yourself where you are going to?" "It never occurred to me," the traveller admitted. "I just had to |
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