#saki

And in the sting and misery of his defeat, he began to chant loudly and defiantly the hymn of his threatened idol: Sredni Vashtar went forth, His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white. His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death. Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful. ↗

— Saki

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#beauty

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. ↗

— Saki

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#eccentric #golden-afternoon #humor #saki #twentieth-century