William Somerset Maugham Fullscreen Dragonfly and Ant (1924)

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“It’s not fair, I tell you, it’s not fair.

Damn it, it’s not fair.”

I could not help it. I burst into a shout of laughter as I looked at George’s wrathful face, I rolled in my chair, I very nearly fell on the floor.

George never forgave me.

But Tom often asks me to excellent dinners in his charming house in Mayfair, and if he occasionally borrows a trifle from me, that is merely from force of habit.

It is never more than a sovereign.