Status Updates From The English Understand Wool

Reading this because Anne Patchett , of Parnassas Books, recommended it.

A note: Garance - take this to Peter Craven of 34, Savile Row. The English understand wool.

If the object is not merely to entertain, but to instruct, those in need of instruction will feel the benefit. If some other young girl, with two million follars at stake, finds this of use I shall count myself justified.

The English reader is too often allowed to believe that little is list if French is left behind at school, or, indeed, never studied at all.

So if you do business with an Arab, oh, of course, you can haggle over a brace of partridges in the street. But if it's a matter of importance, you might spend many hours drinking mint tea and talking of other things. You wait until each has decided whether be is dealing with someone he can trust. If there is no trust, there is no point in signing a piece of paper. This they understand

So perhaps there were people who would like to hear about feelings, but I did not think they were people I would want to know.