In Our Time

<h2 id="CH18"> chapter 18</h2> <p>The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me. We walked through the garden. This is the queen, he said. She was clipping a rose bush. Oh how do you do, she said. We sat down at a table under a big tree and the king ordered whiskey and soda. We have good whiskey anyway, he said. The revolutionary committee, he told me, would not allow him to go outside the palace grounds. Plastiras is a very good man I believe, he said, but frightfully difficult. I think he did right though shooting those chaps. If Kerensky had shot a few men things might have been altogether different. Of course the great thing in this sort of an affair is not to be shot oneself!</p> <p>It was very jolly. We talked for a long time. Like all Greeks he wanted to go to America.</p> <div class="endnotes"> <div class="linelarge"> <div>Here ends <i>The Inquest</i> into the state</div> <div>of contemporary English prose, as</div> <div>edited by <span class="emph">Ezra Pound</span> and printed at</div> <div>the <span class="emph">Three Mountains Press</span>. The six</div> <div>works constituting the series are:</div> </div> <div class="linebook">Indiscretions <i>of</i> Ezra Pound</div> <div class="linebook">Women and Men <i>by</i> Ford Madox Ford</div> <div class="linebook0">Elimus <i>by</i> B. C. Windeler</div> <div>with Designs <i>by</i> D. Shakespear</div> <div class="linebook">The Great American Novel <i>by</i> William Carlos Williams</div> <div class="linebook">England <i>by</i> B.M.G.-Adams</div> <div class="linebook0">In Our Time <i>by</i> Ernest Hemingway</div> <div>with Portrait <i>by</i> Henry Strater</div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />