A Garden of Peace: A Medley in Quietude

Moore, Frank Frankfort · 1931

Dorothy frowns slightly, but slightingly, at the title; but when challenged to put her frown into words she has nothing worse to say about it than that it has a certain catchpenny click--the world is talking about The Peace and she has an impression that to introduce the word even without the very definite article is an attempt to derive profit from a topic of the hour--something like backing a horse with a trusty friend for a race which you have secret information it has won five minutes earlier--a method of amassing wealth resorted to every day, I am told by some one who has tried it more than once, but always just five minutes too late. I don't like Dorothy's rooted objection to my liter…

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