Reginald, by Saki
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‘Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum.’ A series of professionally produced readings of the Reginald stories by Saki (H H Munro). View the world of Edwardian society through the sartorially adapted eye of Saki's solipsistic anti-hero.

The Mouse

‘… he proceeded with violent haste to extricate himself partially and the mouse entirely from the surrounding casings of tweed and half-wool.’
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The Baker’s Dozen

‘“We can’t wait indefinitely for one of the children to take after a doubtfully depraved great aunt.”’
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Cross Currents

‘To be beyond reproach was one thing, but it would have been nicer to have been nearer to the Park.’
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The Strategist

‘Rollo faced the company with a smile that he imagined the better sort of aristocrat would have worn when mounting to the guillotine.’
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The Bag

‘Major Pallaby was a victim of circumstances, over which he had no control, and of his temper, over which he had very little.’
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Gabriel-Ernest

‘“Flesh,” said the boy, and he pronounced the word with slow relish…’
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