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It matters not whether they treat of middle-class life, of low, slum life, or of drawing-room life and lords and ladies; they are equally flat and dreary. Perhaps the most inane thing ever put forth in the name of literature is the so-called domestic novel, an indigestible, culinary sort of product, that might be named the doughnut of fiction.
It is considered good taste to praise the virtues of the lower orders, their simple faith, and their indifference as to political affairs, and to despise that middle-class which is destined to bring about the next revolution. I conversed much with some of the foreigners who live in Rome, and who mix with its best society.
All the "members" attending the meeting house are very decorous, respectable, middle-class people substantial well-pursed folk, who can afford to be independent, and take life easily men and women who dislike shoddy and cant as much as they condemn spangles and lackered gentility. The aggregate of the people connected with the place are calm, steady-going beings.
"Politics," replied Martha. "Really, he is horrid, Jane." "To look at?" "No not to look at. He's handsome in a way. Not at all common looking. You might take him for a gentleman, if you didn't know. Still he always dresses peculiarly always wears soft hats. I think soft hats are SO vulgar don't you?" "How hopelessly middle-class you are, Martha," mocked Jane.
The whole clothing of the working-class, even assuming it to be in good condition, is little adapted to the climate. The damp air of England, with its sudden changes of temperature, more calculated than any other to give rise to colds, obliges almost the whole middle-class to wear flannel next the skin, about the body, and flannel scarfs and shirts are in almost universal use.
The liberal bourgeoisie understood that it could not subdue the masses without the aid and intercession of the middle-class democracy, which, as we have already pointed out, proved to be temporarily the leader of the revolutionary organizations.
Chippewa or that comfortable, middle-class section of it which got its exercise walking home to dinner from the store at noon, and cutting the grass evenings after supper laughed as it read this interview in the Chippewa Eagle. "A golf course," they repeated to one another, grinning. "Conklin's cow pasture, up the river. It's full of natural wait a minute what was? oh, yeh, here it is hazards.
It might also go without saying, were it not that the comparison turns out to be useful, that in animal spirits, physical courage, love of mischief and noise, they are at least a match for middle-class boys who go to the town grammar-school. I wish I could say that they have an equally good sense of "playing the game," an equally strong esprit de corps, and so on.
Other artists besides Peter de Hoogh painted people in their own houses. In the pictures of Terborch ladies in satin dresses play the spinet and the guitar. Jan Steen depicted peasants revelling on their holidays or in taverns. Peter de Hoogh was the painter of middle-class life, and discovered in its circumstances, likewise, abounding romance.
The termination of the war and the fall of the empire found Sulpice a popular man at Grenoble; loved by all, by the populace who knew how generous he was, and by the middle-class who regarded him as a prudent man, hence the February elections saw him sent to Bordeaux, a member of the National Assembly. He had just passed his thirty-fourth year.
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