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But with this proviso, I think: Whatever may come of it, the result is of psychic interest only. We are not trailing a criminal." "Crime is the affair of every decent-minded citizen," his sister put in concisely. But the general view was that Herbert was right. I am not defending our course. I am recording it. It is, I admit, open to argument.
At any rate, whether the cause is pure hypocrisy or pure stupidity, or whether a Scotch mixture of these, it cannot be denied that its result is most irritating to decent-minded people.
From the most quarrelsome and vixenish gin of the camp she has been transformed into a decent-minded peacemaker always ready to atone for the misbehaviour of others, and to display without a trace of self-glorification the virtue of self-sacrifice.
"Understand what you mean by love. If you're going to bar a woman from being a wife 'til she knows what you mean by love, you'll stop about nine tenths of the weddings in the world, and t'other tenth will be women that no decent-minded man would jine with." "Granny, are you sure?" "Well livin' through it, and up'ard of seventy years with other women, ort to teach me something.
There are few villages which do not contain some notorious assassins who have escaped punishment under sentimental pleas, and now terrorize the neighbourhood. This is one of the evils which derange patriarchalism; the decent-minded living in fear of their lives, the others with a conspicuous example before their eyes of the advantages of evil-doing.
And if the colonel and myself made no remark we showed no disagreement. Pity for dead Boche finds no place in the average decent-minded man's composition. Half a dozen of our armoured cars, wheels off, half-burned, or their steering apparatus smashed, lay on the entrenched and wired outskirts of Bony, part of the Hindenburg Line proper.
What they mean is nothing, they arrest a quiet decent-minded man like myself with the same spasmodic disgust as a pun in literature the subject is a transparent excuse; they are mere indecent and unedifying exhibitions of himself. He thinks it is something superlative to do everything in a startling way. He cannot even sign his name without being offensive.
So far as Shefford saw or heard there was no unpleasant incident in the village; however, as the sauntering visitors returned toward their camps they loitered at the spring, and here developments threatened. In spite of the fact that the majority of these cowboys and their comrades were decent-minded and beginning to see the real relation of things, they were not disposed to be civil to Shefford.
A vision arose before his imagination a vision of a peaceful homestead among the green lanes of England, where he would lead a life of study and of kindly, unostentatious acts, with family and friends; old friends of College days, and London days, and African days; new friends from among the rising generation straightforward and decent-minded youngsters, whom he would take to his heart like a father.
Such a scientific analysis would, I think, be an immodest discourtesy towards any lady of my acquaintance, especially towards one for whom I bear considerable affection. It would be as unwarrantable for a decent-minded man to speculate upon her exact spiritual dimensions as upon those portions of her physical frame that are hidden beneath her attire.
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