Days go by and everything seems so dull - I can't stand this! Aunt is more demanding than ever, Sumu has decided that the only workable way to for her to be is either to hum or play, all day and night, that cursed march music she so much enjoys and to try to teach the rest of us proper manners of well- behaving tin soldier (One glorious and sunny day I will most definitely burn her bagpipes, as much as I like them when used by any other person).
And that evening seems to grow more and more distant, turning to a sweet illusion with no true connection to anything that I will ever face in future. Ah, what was I thinking, behaving like those admirable, sweet and silly little hobbit lasses who compete about who gets “to sit closest to that tall and famous lanky shank”. … Sometimes I envy them, it seems so easy for them to just...
I can't stand this. This will not do.
