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Updated: November 28, 2024
Yes, that room was wonderfully consistent, with its air of perfect second-handedness, as if each picture, and each piece of furniture, each book, each lady present, had been made from patterns. The whole room was chaste, restrained, derived, practical, and comfortable; neither in virtue nor in work, neither in manner, speech, appearance, nor in theory, could it give itself away.
"I don't know," he said; "I think I prefer the truth." "Bad endings and the rest," said Mr. Paramor, pausing under one of Nelson's lions and taking Shelton by a button. "Truth 's the very devil!" He stood there, very straight, his eyes haunting his nephew's face; there seemed to Shelton a touching muddle in his optimism a muddle of tenderness and of intolerance, of truth and second-handedness.
But it was the idea of the Anti-Potter League to keep clear of parties and labels. Once you are tied up with a party, you can only avoid second-handedness, taking over views ready-made, if you are very strong-minded indeed. Thursday was a fairly free afternoon for me, and Jane and I somehow got into a habit of going off somewhere together after lunch, or staying on at the club and talking.
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