Sauve Qui Peut

Sauve Qui PeutWe Dips (said Antrobus, employing the sobriquet of the diplomatic lower echelons) are brought up to be resourceful, to play almost any part in life, to be equal to any emergency almost--how else could one face all those foreigners? But the only thing for which we are not prepared, old man, is blood.Blood?Blood!Mind you, I am thinking of exceptional cases, out-of-the-way incidents; but they are not as rare as one might imagine. Old Gulliver, for example, was invited to an execution...