Even when the time is seemingly opportune, it is never a good idea to unveil it in public, even though you may very well be inordinately proud of it. Sometimes these things are best left uncovered; take it from one who understands about these things from a very knowledgeable point of view. Paying the fine later is no laughing matter either, even though – at the time – it does, as I’ve said, seem like a rather spiffing wheeze to get it out in public, not everyone in the library will be as easily enamoured of it as you.
Anyway, later, when you come to take a more dispassionate view of the matter as you sit quietly in the police cell, you will – eventually – come to the conclusion that no matter how personally attached to it you are, no mater how proud of it you are – to everyone else it is nothing special, nothing out of the ordinary. Well, the only thing out of the ordinary is the way you whipped it out in the reading room like that. Certainly not the act of a gentleman, that is for sure, even though these days the very idea of there even being such a person in existence who could begin to embody such an outworn concept is treated with the utmost derision.
Still, no doubt you will think again, the next time such a course of action pops up in your mind for consideration, and - we can only hope – that this next time, when it does arise – you will decide against a similar course of action. For which you will no doubt have the gratitude of the whole nation.
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