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Show 1 TTLdteA. Ovsa. mbuL Sir Mark Young, governor of ; Hong Kong when it was taken by the Japanese, and who was taken prisoner at that time and later released, re-leased, is the hero of many stories illustrating a rapier-like wit. One of the best is of the lady, lunching at Government House, who was aggrieved to find herself on Sir Mark's left instead of his right. She approached her grievance obliquely but made it fairly obvious. ob-vious. Finally she remarked: "I suppose it is really very difficult for your A.D.C. always to put your guests in their right places?" "Not at all," said Sir Mark blandly, "for those who matter don't mi.id, and those who mind don't matter." |