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"He lived there for a while when he first came back from running away, and he's a friend of Mike Sheehan's that runs it; he's a friend of all the riff-raff that hang around there." "How do you know he goes there?" "Why, it was in the paper the day after he came back!" He appealed for corroboration. "Wasn't it, Eugene?" "No, no!" she persisted. "Newspapers are sometimes mistaken, aren't they?"
'Never mind; if Theodora is so pig-headed as to rush into this scheme, it is no concern of yours. All you have to do is to take care not to be worried. Violet had regained a cheerful voice. 'If you were going with her, it would not signify. 'It would signify pretty much to me to be bored with all that riff-raff. One would think Theodora bewitched. 'There is hardly any one of our acquaintance.
"Vulgar people, my dear a herd of riff-raff, who, for the miserable sum of sixty thousand francs, of which they pretend I have despoiled them, have carried a complaint against me for an abuse of confidence, and forced me to give up my commission." "Really! general? Ah, well! this is a misfortune! How shall we work no more for you?" "I am on half-pay, my good Bourdin; here I am on an allowance."
"He actually seems to boast of it!" she cried. "I am base base!" muttered Lebedeff, beating his breast, and hanging his head. "What do I care if you are base or not? He thinks he has only to say, 'I am base, and there is an end of it. As to you, prince, are you not ashamed? I repeat, are you not ashamed, to mix with such riff-raff? I will never forgive you!"
Murmurs followed about him as if he were the horse himself "looks in racing form" "looks used up to me" "too little hands surely to hold in long in a spin" "too much length in the limbs for a light weight; bone's always awfully heavy" "dark under the eye, been going too fast for training" "a swell all over, but rides no end," with other innumerable contradictory phrases, according as the speaker was "on" him or against him, buzzed about him from the riff-raff of the Ring, in no way disturbing his serene equanimity.
And when people blame Bernard Shaw for his pitiless and prosaic coldness, his cutting refusal to reverence or admire, I think they should remember this riff-raff of lawless sentimentalism against which his commonsense had to strive, all the grandiloquent "comrades" and all the gushing "affinities," all the sweetstuff sensuality and senseless sulking against law.
Strickland was foolish enough to take that man for his model; and, following out his absurd theory, dabbled in unsavory places no respectable man would think of exploring all among the native riff-raff. He educated himself in this peculiar way for seven years, and people could not appreciate it.
A few of the riff-raff, who invariably attend these public scenes, were now rather the worse for drink, from the indifferent liquor provided by the auctioneer, and they were inclined to horseplay and coarse chaff.
We learn to read before we know how to see; we swallow our tastes, convictions, and emotions whole; so that nine-tenths of the world's nectar is merely honeydew. He smiled pleasantly into the fixed vacancy of his visitor's face. 'That's why I've just gone on, he continued amiably, 'collecting this particular kind of stuff what you might call riff-raff.
Shy of meeting those who had once treated him as an equal, imagining when he did meet them that now they only admitted him to their company on sufferance and held him in their thoughts of no account, he had become avid for recognition among the riff-raff of the town. "I have backed the man from Singapore," he replied, "I know him.
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