Jerome Klapka Jerome

seemed to me that George harped too much on the getting-upset idea

rummaged the things up into much the same state that they must have been before the world was created, and when chaos reigned

Montmorency was in it all, of course. Montmorency's ambition in life, is to get in the way and be sworn at. If he can squirm in anywhere where he particularly is not wanted, and be a perfect nuisance, and make people mad, and have things thrown at his head, then he feels his day has not been wasted