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After all, they are one of the hardest-working classes in existence. They toil while everybody else is asleep. They are generally thorough sportsmen. Besides, a burglar is only a practical socialist. Philosophers talk a lot about the redistribution of wealth. The burglar goes out and does it. I have found burglars some of the decentest criminals I have ever met.
You see, we start with the enormous advantage of having had forebears of the very decentest not great, not noble, but men who feared God and honoured the King men who lived justly and loved mercy. It would be most uncalled for of us to start out on bypaths with such a straight record behind us. But Mhor, bless him, is different. I haven't a notion what went to the making of him.
"He's generally with Wyatt when I meet him." "Yes. Well, then!" "What's wrong with Wyatt? He's one of the decentest men in the school." "I know. But he's working up for a tremendous row one of these days, unless he leaves before it comes off. The odds are, if Jackson's so thick with him, that he'll be roped into it too.
Thanks to Kedzie, Jim Dyckman, one of the richest men going and one of the decentest fellows alive, learned what it means to lie in shabby domicile and to salt dirty bread with tears; to be afraid to face the public that had fawned on him, and to understand the portion of the criminal and the pariah.
"It's only because you are the decentest man I happen to know," said Selwyn resentfully. "Probably she'd turn you down, anyway. But " and he brightened up, "I dare say she'll choose the best to be had; it's a pity though " "What's a pity?" "That a charming, intellectual, sensitive, innocent girl like that should be turned over to a plain lump of a man."
Ah! cettainlee!" she replied, with a lovely bow and a wave of the hand toward Mrs. Richling, whom she had already given the same assurance. "Yes," responded the little wife, with a captivated smile, and nodded to her husband. "We want to get the decentest thing that is cheap," he said, as the three stood close together in the middle of the room. The landlady flushed.
There may be a bit of a reckoning against Jem for the matter of a hare or so, if anybody was bound to keep their eyes staring open, and niver to wink; but Jem's been a-sitting here drinking his can, like the decentest man i' the parish, since before you left your house, Master Marner, by your own account." "Aye, aye," said Mr. Macey; "let's have no accusing o' the innicent. That isn't the law.
Mark Twain, long after, alluding to this period in his life, pays this characteristic acknowledgment: "Bret Harte trimmed and trained and schooled me patiently until he changed me from an awkward utterer of coarse grotesqueness to a writer of paragraphs and chapters that have found favor in the eyes of even some of the decentest people in the land."
And they gave three groans for Baldyhead Dolan and three cheers for Conmee and they said he was the decentest rector that was ever in Clongowes. The cheers died away in the soft grey air. He was alone. He was happy and free; but he would not be anyway proud with Father Dolan.
"I don't quite know how much you mean, but enough for all practical ends." "Marrying a fashionable actress is hardly a practical end." "Certainly not, but I'm not speaking from his point of view." Nash was perfectly lucid. "Moreover, I thought you just now said it would be such a good thing for her." "To marry Nick Dormer?" "You said a good decent man, and he's one of the very decentest."
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