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I believe the steam tractor comes
next week. The Squire has been employing some new lawyers to
find out if he can't stop it somehow. And each time he sees them
he comes home madder than before.
'Of course it all comes from a passionate antagonism to the war.
He is not a pacifist exactly--he is not a conscientious
objector. He is just an individualist gone mad--an egotistical,
hot-tempered man, with all the ideas of the old _regime_, who
thinks he can fight the world. I am often really sorry for
him--he is so preposterous. But the muddle and waste of it all
drives me crazy--you know I always was a managing creature.
'But one thing is certain--that he is a most excellent scholar.
I knew I had got rusty, but I didn't know how rusty till I came
to work for him. He has a wonderful memory--seems to know every
Greek author by heart--and a most delicate and unerring taste. I
thought I should find a mere dabbler--an amateur. And it takes
all I know to do the drudgery work he gives me.


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