The English Gentleman's Child

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THE ENGLISH GENTLEMANT CHILD
It was with somé diffidence that I first placed my observations on the habits and customs of the English Gentleman before the public, and with even greater temerity that I followed it with a similar survey on the English Gentleman's Wife.
That both books were so kindly received has not, however, been a factor in my decision to complete the trilogy by writing The English Gentleman s Child. This is a book which I have always felt it was my duty to write in the hope that its careful perusal by prospective parents of whatever social category may per-suade them that their duty lies to the unborn generation, and that it is their undoubted responsibility to try and preserve something of what we all hold dear in a rapidly changing world.
My main reservation about writing the English Gentleman was that the book itself provided indisputable proof of how lamentably far short I myself had fallen from the descrip-tion. By the same tokén, I had never, for obvious... Tovább

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THE ENGLISH GENTLEMANT CHILD
It was with somé diffidence that I first placed my observations on the habits and customs of the English Gentleman before the public, and with even greater temerity that I followed it with a similar survey on the English Gentleman's Wife.
That both books were so kindly received has not, however, been a factor in my decision to complete the trilogy by writing The English Gentleman s Child. This is a book which I have always felt it was my duty to write in the hope that its careful perusal by prospective parents of whatever social category may per-suade them that their duty lies to the unborn generation, and that it is their undoubted responsibility to try and preserve something of what we all hold dear in a rapidly changing world.
My main reservation about writing the English Gentleman was that the book itself provided indisputable proof of how lamentably far short I myself had fallen from the descrip-tion. By the same tokén, I had never, for obvious biological reasons, been able to do more than make a scien-tific study of the chemistry which goes to the making of an English Gentleman's Wife.
In the case of the English Gentleman's Child, however, I can make the sensational assertion that I was one of the species for close on eighteen years, and it was only the outbreak of a World. War that enabled me finally to make good my escape.
To this day 1 can remember when my early childish rebellion against the accident of my birth was finally crushed. Having by a combination of sheer cunning, coupled with a capaci-ty for mendacity which came easily to me, managed to get rid of the latest of a series of tyrannical nannies, I was playing, temporarily unob-served behind the sofa in my mother's drawing room, when a large tweedy lady strode in, slashing at her riding boot with a hunting crop, and boom-ed: kT say, Hope (for this, indeed, was my mother's name), I think I've found another wardress for your brat!"
At that moment 1 knew that all further resistance was useless. The systeni had won and all that was left to me was to try and develop the stiff upper lip which, to this day, is the sine qua non that distinguishes an English Gentleman. Vissza