Excerpt: "It was Saturday night at the Rectory, and the Vereker family-"those absurdly handsome Rectory children," as old Lady Curlew, of Hainings, invariably called them-sat round the dining-room table playing "Happy Families." The rules which govern this absorbing pastime are simple. The families are indeed happy. They contain no widows and no orphans, and each pair of parents possesses one son and one daughter-perhaps the perfect number, for the sides of the house are equally balanced both for purposes of companionship and in the event of sex-warfare."
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Major General John Hay Beith, CBE (17 April 1876 22 September 1952), was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. (Wikipedia)
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Excerpt: It was Saturday night at the Rectory, and the Vereker family"those absurdly handsome Rectory children," as old Lady Curlew, of Hainings, invariably called themsat round the dining-room table playing "Happy Families." The rules which govern this absorbing pastime are simple. The families are indeed happy. They contain no widows and no orphans, and each pair of parents possesses one son and one daughterperhaps the perfect number, for the sides of the house are equally balanced both for purposes of companionship and in the event of sex-warfare.