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But the phlegmatic Englishman won't lead in that dégringolade. 'You mean we won't be among the first of the great nations to give women the Suffrage? 'England? The slow head-shake and the smile airily relegated the Woman's Movement to the limbo of the infinitely distant. 'Just because the men won't have it? and for the second time she said, 'I wonder.
Godwin especially was a running sore both now and later on; the philosopher was at the beginning of that shabby 'degringolade' which was to end in the ruin of his self-respect. In spite of his anti-matrimonial principles, he was indignant at his disciple's elopement with his daughter, and, in spite of his philosophy, he was not above abusing and sponging in the same breath.
As she sat in the box looking on at this gross impertinence, she seemed to herself to be watching herself after a long degringolade, which had brought her, not to the gutter, but to the smart restaurant, the smart music-hall, the smart night club; the smart everything else that is beyond the borderland of even a lax society. This was Miss Schley's comment upon her.
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