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Updated: April 30, 2025
The Decemvirs, after the definitive fall of the Girondists, had made terror the order of the day; after the fall of the Hebertists, justice and probity, because these were impure men of faction; after the fall of the Dantonists, terror and all virtues, because these Dantonists were, according to their phraseology, indulgents and immorals.
"Well, Pointview under Lizzie was like Rome under Theodora. The immorals o' the people throve an' grew. As prices went up decency went down, an' wisdom rose in value like meat an' flour. Seemed so everybody that had a dollar in the bank an' some that didn't bought automobiles. They kept me busy drawin' contracts an' deeds an' mortgages an' searchin' titles, an' o' course I prospered.
"Yes and all of them taken by luckier fellows! You wouldn't have me marry Sally Warner, would you or any of the other half-dozen Sally Warners? I might as well marry a gas chandelier, a grand piano, and a code of immorals but the standard of such women is so different from the standard of women like yourself."
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