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"He asked me to read his son's letter to him, for he is not apt, it would appear, in deciphering writing; and, indeed, it was more or less hieroglyphical, then gazed for a few moments at the dilapidated crew, dilapidated as to health, I mean; for they are clean and decent, and fairly respectable looking, and said, 'Well, ye do all seem to be enj'yin' a powerful lot of poor health among ye. Then he turned into the house, saying that he must 'see what mother said, giving neither word of welcome nor refusal to admit the claim of the strangers; and presently Mrs.
So they lived, as no end of "respectable" families do, a life of penury and seclusion, sometimes going without a meal that they might have decent clothing to wear abroad, never able to buy a book, to hear a concert, and only by painful sacrifice able to entertain a friend. Time would have weighed heavily on Mrs.
If he did take that Vyse girl into the Patroons, it was his limit with her and, I believe his limit with any woman. He was absurdly decent that way; he was indeed. And now look at the reputation he has! Isn't it funny? isn't it, now?" "What sort of an effect do you suppose all this business is going to have on Siward?"
Money remained in his pockets no longer than water remains in a sieve. But he did not think of elevating his vices to the proportions of the fortune which he squandered. He did not even provide himself with decent clothing; from his appearance one would have supposed him a beggar, and his companions were the vilest and most degraded of beings.
When I make an engagement, I keep it. When I take obligations and responsibilities upon me, I do my best to fulfil them. Most men do decent men; but they never have justice done them in these cases." "In these cases!" she echoed scornfully. "Everybody knows what their conduct is in these cases. The world is well used to it. Oh, I ought to have known if I hadn't been the most incredible fool!
'What right had he to come to us under false colours, to pretend to be poor, a nobody with only the vaguest hope of making a decent position in the future? and to offer himself under such impossible conditions to a girl brought up as I had been a girl educated by one of the proudest and most ambitious of women to force me to renounce everything except him?
That decent conditions and adequate pay for labor, and just return for agriculture, can be secured through parallel and simultaneous action by forty-eight States is a proven impossibility. It is equally impossible to obtain curbs on monopoly, unfair trade practices and speculation by State action alone.
Thereupon, the wary Hess and the discreet Joe Murray found an excuse for hurrying Roosevelt out of the saloon, and they told him that he had better look after his friends on Fifth Avenue and that they would look after the saloon-keepers on Sixth Avenue. That any decent candidate should have to pass in review before the saloon-keepers and receive their approval, is so monstrous as to be grotesque.
Come, come, Mr Crupper, the horses will carry us along the roads without coming down on their knees at a decent pace, and if you like to take the sum I offer, we'll have them, if not, we will soon go and seek another dealer who is not so ready to pass off his broken-kneed beasts on poor ignorant `Jack-tars."
"Now," said Yank firmly, "it's about time we took stock. We been here now five days; we ain't had a decent meal of vittles in that time; we ain't fixed up our camp a mite; we ain't been to town to see the sights; we don't even know the looks of the man that's camped down below us. We've been too danged busy to be decent. Now we're goin' to call a halt.
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