'"...I'm afraid you take life rather seriously, don't you?"
"Why certainly," the young man answered with gravity. "Isn't that the way to take it?"
"Oh, bless you, no. It's too grim a business. The proper spirit to take it in is one of unseemly levity."'
from The Prodigal Father, a piece in Mademoiselle Miss and other stories by Henry Harland
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