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Updated: May 19, 2025
This vexed him greatly; but he got over it, and then he placed me in the ‘Imperial Bounty.’ A stylish place, I can tell you, where few but nobles were allowed. “But how could I, a lusty young fellow, be happy among that moping, musty, crampt-up lot of old respectables? Not I! so, as I could not easily get out in the day-time, I ran away one night, and went back to my old quarters.
You want to enthrone good taste again." "Just good taste? Fastidious people? Oh no! I believe all of us want the same things we're all together, the industrial workers and the women and the farmers and the negro race and the Asiatic colonies, and even a few of the Respectables. It's all the same revolt, in all the classes that have waited and taken advice.
Honesty's a bluff with most of the big respectables; under cover of their respectability, of their 'old and honored names, of their social connections, of their church-going and that, they do all sorts of queer work."
God and conscience be your judges! Even now ye have compassed many frauds, connived at many meannesses, trodden down the good, and set the bad on high all for gold hard gold; and are ye the honest the upright? Speak out manfully your excuse, if you can find one, ye respectables of merchandise, ye traders, bartering all for cash, ye Scribes, ye Pharisees, hypocrites, all honourable men.
I urged her to attend church. Forms and ceremonies became the all-important things and the life and the spirit were proportionately unimportant. I became mildewed with the blight of respectability. I became the possessor of a hard hat that I might ape the respectables. I walked home every night from Ballycraigie with Jamie Wallace, and Jamie was the best-dressed working man in the town.
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