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Quotation from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
“But I had done my best service, I think, before I put on khaki.”
The Thirty-Nine Steps, Chapter X (Project Gutenberg #558)
The novel's last sentence, after Hannay records that war came seven weeks later and he joined the New Army.
Citation: "But I had done my best service, I think, before I put on khaki." — John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Chapter X (Project Gutenberg #558). (id the-thirty-nine-steps-q8)
Portrait: ThirtyNineSteps, Originally published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh., Public domain.
