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Updated: June 19, 2025
As Powers himself observed, the ruins of our Capitol are not likely to afford sculptures equal to those which Lord Elgin took from the Parthenon, if this be the system under which they are produced. . . . I wish our great Republic had the spirit to do as much, according to its vast means, as Florence did for sculpture and architecture when it was a republic; but we have the meanest government and the shabbiest, and if truly represented by it we are the meanest and shabbiest people known in history.
The sudden changes of fortune, from splendour to poverty of the shabbiest description, the reckless, dishonest expenditure, and the endless debts consequent on it; the means doubtful to say the least of them employed by M. Linders for procuring money; the sense of alienation from all that is best, and noblest, and truest in life; all these, which had gone far to make up the sum of her mother's misery, affected our Madelon hardly at all.
The flickering and uncertain light discovered a gaunt and unshaven European in the shabbiest of clothes. "Roscoe's out; what do you want?" he brusquely demanded. "Only a couple of rupees," was the hoarse reply. "I'm ashamed for you to see me; I'm down and under, as you may guess." "Drink?" suggested Shafto, lighting another match. "No; drugs two devils: cocaine and morphia."
Geoffrey's ejaculation for instance when she had invited him to her sitting-room after breakfast that he might look for a book he had lent her "My word, Helena, what a jolly place! Why, this was the old school-room I remember it perfectly the piggiest, shabbiest old den. And Philip has had it all done up for you? Didn't know he had so much taste!"
He made no answer to that, but slipped into the chair. "You look tired," he said. "What have you been doing?" "I have been dusting the books," she answered, smiling at him. "You remember you told me I should be content to do that. The very oldest and shabbiest have had my tenderest care. I found the shop in disorder. You see it now." "I should not call it particularly tidy now," he said grimly.
At last, after a time, as the saying goes, "Familiarity bred contempt." The fear which her companions had felt at first soon changed into a familiarity often too great for the unhappy Cochin-China. They tried to see who could play her the shabbiest trick. Hens are often as cruel as men, which is saying a great deal.
There he was taken for a runaway apprentice, and certainly his appearance justified suspicion. Tall and gawky as he was in person, with tow-coloured hair, and a scanty suit of shabbiest homespun, his appearance excited astonishment or ridicule wherever he went. He had never worn a good suit of clothes in his life.
This was the theory which was called orthodox political economy the laisser-faire system the philosophy of competition or supply and demand, and it was incessantly denounced by Carlyle as Mammon worship, as 'devil take the hindmost, as 'pure egoism'; 'the shabbiest gospel that had been taught among men. He declared that in the long run no society could flourish, or even permanently cohere, if the only relation between man and man was a mere money tie.
From Lais in her jewelled litter to Cora in her English landau in the Bois, and on to the shabbiest small slut who flaunts her raddle and her broken feather in the slums of London, the same story is told and the same moral preached. Where is an equal army of men to be found to invite the contumely of their own sex?
This room that they shared, like the other rooms of the bungalow, was of light varnished wood and the floor was bare. The furniture was of the shabbiest, the simplest. The dressing-table, for instance, was a packing-case in a sprigged muslin petticoat, and the mirror above was very strange; it was as though a little piece of forked lightning was imprisoned in it.
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