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There was a curious mixture of pride and contempt in his feeling for this cousin, who had risen above the dead level of local obscurity. "He thinks almighty well of himself," he concluded his portrait; "but there ain't a rottener peanut politician in the State of California, and that's sayin' some.
"We should feel rottener beasts," said Frances, "if we stood in your way." "Of course we care," said Anthony. "I don't mean for me for it?" "My dear Mick," said Frances, "we care for It almost as much as we care for you. We're sorry about Germany though. Germany was one of your father's bad jokes." "Germany a joke?" "Did you take it seriously? Oh, you silly Michael!"
You may have virtue in America, amongst a people which is fresh from a struggle with the earth and its savages. We have cursed little at home, in faith. The King, with his barley water and rising at six, and shivering in chapel, and his middle-class table, is rottener than the rest. The money he saves in his damned beggarly court goes to buy men's souls. His word is good with none.
Since his return to London Ginger had been in bad shape. He mooned through the days and slept poorly at night. If there is one thing rottener than another in a pretty blighted world, one thing which gives a fellow the pip and reduces him to the condition of an absolute onion, it is hopeless love. Hopeless love had got Ginger all stirred up. His had been hitherto a placid soul.
I never believed in the rottenness of England, and surely the spirits of our young men who are fighting ought to prove that it isn't? England decadent, indeed!" "You're right," Freddy said. "England wasn't a bit rotten or, at least, no rottener than she ever was, only the rottenness was all dragged into the limelight.
You may have virtue in America, amongst a people which is fresh from a struggle with the earth and its savages. We have cursed little at home, in faith. The King, with his barley water and rising at six, and shivering in chapel, and his middle-class table, is rottener than the rest. The money he saves in his damned beggarly court goes to buy men's souls. His word is good with none.
"Politically, there isn't a rottener little corner in the whole United States of America than this same Rhode Island and how much that's saying, you can imagine. You can buy votes on election day as you'd buy herrings, and there's not the remotest effort at reform, nor any hope of it." "You speak bitterly," said Montague. "I am bitter," said Bates. "But it doesn't often break out.
I was saying that I wished she'd er I wished that you and she might be friends." "So that you and she could see each other still oftener, I suppose." "It's rotten of you to say that." "And it's rottener of you to go talking to another woman about your wife." "But it was in the friendliest spirit, and she took it so." "I see! Her first name is Charity and I'm to be one of her patients.
You may have virtue in America, amongst a people which is fresh from a struggle with the earth and its savages. We have cursed little at home, in faith. The King, with his barley water and rising at six, and shivering in chapel, and his middle-class table, is rottener than the rest. The money he saves in his damned beggarly court goes to buy men's souls. His word is good with none.
"He is a gentleman, father. He couldn't " Braddock took instant offense. He hated to hear any one spoken of as a gentleman. "What's that got to do with it?" he demanded. "Gentleman, eh? You two seem to think that these pretty gentlemen can't do anything wrong. Why, they're rottener than nine-tenths of the blokes that follow this show every mother's son of 'em.
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