Most people in looking forward to a holiday. of any sort say comfortably to themselves: Go to, let there be none of this untoward fuss and flurry the last few hours before the train or boat departs, let all be done decently and in order and preparations under taken in plenty of time." Forthwith he or she rushes out to buy a new thrush, ora roll of films, and then, feeling most virtrious, settles back until. the imminence of departure spurs him on to spasms of nervous energy.
Some there may be who make their arrangements in regular and orderly fashion, an errand a day, as it were, just as we have heard of the forehanded who upon the sizzling days of July were addressing their Christmas greeting cards; but these rare birds do not often cross our paths, belonging rather among those "Men Like Gods" of whom Mr. Wells writes.
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