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"I believe you're a pessimist!" "That is the first trashy thing I've heard you say." "Thank you! At least admit you're scarcely an optimist." "Optimist! Pessimist! Why, you're talking just like a newspaper!" He laughed. "Oh, don't compare a gentleman to a newspaper." "Then keep your vocabulary clean of bargain-counter words.
The girls say it's lovely." "I've heard of it, dear. Mrs. Sampson was talking about it. She says it's not a nice book at all. I don't think father would like you to read it." "Oh, you don't mind, father, do you?" "What's that?" The Archdeacon was in a good humour. He loved apple tart. "The Massarenes, by Ouida." "Trashy novels. Why don't you girls ever read anything but novels?" and so on.
But criticism maintains a dignified silence or gets out of it with idle trashy babble. If it seems to you authoritative it is because it is stupid, conceited, impudent, and clamorous; because it is an empty barrel one cannot help hearing. But let us have done with that and sing something out of a different opera. Please don't build any literary hopes on my Sahalin trip.
He has read manuscript for publishing houses; he has novelised popular plays for ha-penny papers, and dramatised trashy novels for cheap producers; he has done routine chore writing in magazine offices, made translations for pirate publishers, and picked up an odd sum now and then by a "Sunday story." He has always been an anonymous writer.
"I don't know why she should be expected to see a trashy, traditional apparition like the so-called Cullumpton ghost, that is only vouched for by housemaids and tipsy stable-boys, when my uncle, who was the owner of Exwood, committed suicide there under the most tragical circumstances, and most certainly haunts the place." "Mrs.
In the light of knowledge gained in later years, I can now see in that long, slouching, shuffling figure, in that tallow-colored face with the bloodless, loose lips and the wandering, mystic eyes of periwinkle blue I can see in that girl-face framed by a trashy picture-hat, and in that girl-form wrapped in the old golf-cape, one of the earth's unfortunates; a congenital failure; a female creature doomed from her mother's womb physically, mentally, and morally doomed.
"I'll telephone to Winnie as I go past the Post Office to come and spend the day with you and I'll send up the servant to do your room. Now don't fret." "I'm a lonely old woman, Gertrude: and I wish I was dead." Gertrude frowned. "You should try and read something, Mother better than these trashy novels. When I've time, I'll send you a parcel of books I've got a good many.
Understand me, now. I don't mean the love of getting cheap things, by which one understands showy, trashy, ill-made, spurious articles, bearing certain apparent resemblances to better things. All really sensible people are quite superior to that sort of cheapness.
If the wretched dupe who assassinated Jaurès had known that the trashy articles on the Three Years Law he had been reading were not the voice of France in peril, but the ignorant scribbling of some poor devil at his wits' end to earn three francs, he would hardly have thrown away his own life to take that of the greatest statesman his country has produced since Mirabeau.
Poor Charley, though he made his living by ministering to various abject vices, gave credit for their food to many a piece of white wreckage. He was naively overjoyed at the idea of his old bills being paid, and he reckoned confidently on a spell of festivities in the cavernous grog-shop downstairs. Massy remembered the curious, respectful looks of the "trashy" white men in the place.
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