It is my opinion that this Sophia of Greece is a minx . '' Susan was furious when the news came that Venizelos had met with defeat . `` I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards , that I could , '' she exclaimed bitterly . `` Oh , Susan , I 'm surprised at you , '' said the doctor , pulling a long face . `` Have you no regard for the proprieties ? Skin him alive by all means but omit the spanking . '' `` If he had been well spanked in his younger days he might have more sense now , '' retorted Susan . `` But I suppose princes are never spanked , more is the pity . I see the Allies have sent him an ultimatum . I could tell them that it will take more than ultimatums to skin a snake like Constantine . Perhaps the Allied blockade will hammer sense into his head ; but that will take some time I am thinking , and in the meantime what is to become of poor Serbia ? '' They saw what became of Serbia , and during the process Susan was hardly to be lived with . In her exasperation she abused everything and everybody except Kitchener , and she fell upon poor President Wilson tooth and claw . `` If he had done his duty and gone into the war long ago we should not have seen this mess in Serbia , '' she avowed . `` It would be a serious thing to plunge a great country like the United States , with its mixed population , into the war , Susan , '' said the doctor , who sometimes came to the defence of the President , not because he thought Wilson needed it especially , but from an unholy love of baiting Susan . `` Maybe , doctor dear -- maybe ! But that makes me think of the old story of the girl who told her grandmother she was going to be married . ` It is a solemn thing to be married , ' said the old lady . ` Yes , but it is a solemner thing not to be , ' said the girl . And I can testify to that out of my own experience , doctor dear .
And I think it is a solemner thing for the Yankees XXXXX they have kept out of the war than it would have been if they had gone into it .
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