It’s a pity that folk as talk about fighting the…

It’s a pity that folk as talk about fighting the Enemy can’t let others do their bit in their own way without interfering. He’d be mighty pleased, if he could see you now. Think he’d got a new friend, he would.

Book IV, The Window on the West

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