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Updated: May 27, 2025
Such was the disturbing incident which ended the bleeding of his dignity. In order to keep up the pretence that hat-raising was a normal function of his daily life he was obliged to talk freely; and he did talk freely. But neither he nor Helen said a word as to the Prockters.
Not gracefully, not with the beauteous curves of an Emanuel did he raise his hat but he raised it. His prayer was answered. "There!" his chest said to Helen. "If you thought I didn't know how to behave to your conceited acquaintances, you were mistaken." And his casual, roving eye pretended that hat-raising was simply the most ordinary thing on earth.
Further, except at grave-sides, James Ollerenshaw had never in his life raised his hat. Hat-raising formed no part of his code of manners. In his soul he looked upon hat-raising as affected. He believed that all people who raised hats did so from a snobbish desire to put on airs. Hat-raising was rather like saying "please," only worse.
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