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As decent-minded men they won't dare to send a fellow to the chair whose defense they cannot hear and whose motives they do not either know or understand. They will feel, as I do and perhaps you do, that the only persons to do justice among Syrians are Syrians." "Well," replied Mr. Pepperill politely, "what have you to propose?"
But I do not like men to endorse the cruelty of nature. And, of course, there is no decent-minded person nowadays but wants to put an end to that ugly blot upon our civilisation, the publication of whatever is most spicy and painful in divorce court proceedings.
But you are by now almost a clerk, and from the day I joined Miss Fraser in this business, you have helped me more than you know helped me not only in my work, but to understand that there can be good, true, decent-minded, trustworthy ... you won't like it if I say "boys" ... young men. I am going away for a considerable time, I cannot say how long probably abroad.
And to this I made answer, assuring her that no decent-minded man could think the worse of her; but that I, for my part, thought rather the better, seeing that I liked the pluck which she had shown.
"Margaret was a guid wife an' a guid mother, an' I doubt she would harm a fly. She brought up her fomuly God-fearin' an' decent-minded. Her trouble was thot she took lunatic turned eediot." Mrs. Ross tapped significantly on her forehead to indicate a state of addlement. "But I talked with her this afternoon," I objected, "and I found her a sensible woman remarkably bright for one of her years."
A few splendid carp, the color themselves of dawn, swam lazily about with noses in the direction of the house whence came, they well knew, liberal offerings of rice and cake. Kano had his plum trees, too; the classic "umè," loved of all artists, poets, and decent-minded people generally.
'I don't suppose any decent-minded girl would consent to sleep in such a loathsome hole, retorted Bessie. 'She would prefer a pillow and a rug on the landing. 'My den is quite as tidy as that barrack of yours, said the Wykhamiste, 'though I haven't yet risen to disfiguring my walls with kitchen plates and fourpenny fans. The cheap aesthetic is not my line.
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