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His only chance was to go away and do something so jolly plucky that _ we _ 're ashamed of ourselves , and never to come back again to spoil it . You do n't want him to spoil it , Mummy ducky , do you ? '' Anthony and Frances tried , conscientiously and patriotically , to realize the Boer War . They said it was terrible to have it hanging over them , morning , noon and night . But it did n't really hang over them . It hung over a country that , except once when it had conveniently swallowed up Morrie , they had never thought about and could not care for , a landscape that they could not see . The war was not even part of that landscape ; it refused to move over it in any traceable course .