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Here, within the walls of the same abattoir, in other roomy and commodious buildings, are a place for converting the fat into tallow and packing it for market a place for cleansing and scalding calves' heads and sheep's feet a place for preparing tripe stables and coach-houses for the butchers innumerable conveniences, aiding in the diminution of offensiveness to its lowest possible point, and the raising of cleanliness and supervision to their highest.
In essence it was the same as fire insurance, marine insurance, accident insurance and so forth, with an added offensiveness in that it was a betting on human lives commonly by the policy-holder on lives that should have been held most sacred and altogether immune from the taint of traffic.
The subconscious offensiveness of their attitude has constituted old Jolyon's 'home' the psychological moment of the family history, made it the prelude of their drama.
Their offensiveness went no further than this, however, and in a moment Markham made out the bulk of a roulette in the shadows of the wood, the shaggy specter of a horse, a camp-fire, and a party of caravaners.
Not on any such account was the stately courtesy of the Legate's reception in the smallest degree modified. It was subject, indeed, to many modifications; but these were wholly irrespective of any such circumstances. There is a peculiar sort of naivete about Italian ostentation, which robs it of all its offensiveness.
As they grow less used to squalor, no doubt they cannot bear its offensiveness so well as of old; but we may not infer from this fact that any new and positive aspirations towards a comelier home-life have been born in them. The improvement is only one of those negative changes that have been thrust upon them from the outside.
I had taken rapid stock of him in the seconds that were sped, and from the surpassing richness of his apparel, his gold-broidered doublet and crimson, fur-edged surcoat, I knew that Messer Ramiro del' Orca was grown to the high estate of Governor of Cesena. "A new trade even as yours," I answered him. "Nay, that is no answer," he cried, overlooking my offensiveness.
When I say "offensive," I refer merely to the intention of those who use such terms, and not because Atheism or Materialism, when compared with many of the notions ventilated in the columns of religious newspapers has any particular offensiveness to me.
But the English, when translated, was bald and blunt to the verge of offensiveness. 'I take up the glove you have tossed us. I am an Englishman. That will do for a reason. This might possibly pass with the gentlemen of the English Guard. But read: 'MESSIEURS DE LA GARDE FRANCAISE, 'J'accepte votre gant. Je suis Anglais. La raison est suffisante. And imagine French Guardsmen reading it! Mr.
It must be conceded, also, that to those for whom he felt indifference or dislike, he had in no slight degree that capacity of making himself disagreeable which reaches, and then only in rare instances, the ripened perfection of offensiveness in him who has breathed from earliest youth the social air of England. These were traits that were sure to make him enemies in private life.
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