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"But they've both got fine young tempers of their own, for all they're so gay and friendly. Somebody's going to learn who's rulin' the roost, when the first edge of the honeymoon's off. And it's in me mind that the under-dog won't be Mr. Francis." "Oh, mother! How can you talk so horridly?" remonstrated Peggy. "As if they ever had any chance of quarreling!" "There's none," said Mrs.
Not a scholar surely, not even a considerable miscellaneous reader, he yet had the basis of a good education; he had the habit of reading over and over again a few of the best books; he had a good memory; he had an intellect strong to grasp the great commanding features of any subject; he had a fondness for the study of human nature, and singular proficiency in that branch of science; he had quick and warm sympathies, particularly with persons in trouble, an invincible propensity to take sides with the under-dog in any fight.
He had written and traveled and talked and plotted, even vowed himself to poverty, all for the good of the under-dog. "It isn't fanaticism, when you come to look at it," Peter mused. "He sees it clearly, and makes one see it for the moment of listening. He isn't afraid. He would die every day for it, if he could.... And I take things as I find them, and grin.
It was a fine old blade that he wielded; only a few times in his life had he been called upon to use any other when some under-dog was maltreated, or his own good name or that of a friend was traduced, or some wrong had to be righted then his face would become as hot steel and there would belch out a flame of denunciation that would scorch and blind in its intensity.
In Mark Twain the American people recognized at last the sturdy democrat, independent of foreign criticism; confident in the validity and value of his own ideas and judgments; believing loyally in his country's institutions, and upholding them fearlessly before the world; fundamentally serious and self-reliant, yet with a practicality tempered by humane kindliness, warmth of heart, and a strain of persistent idealism; rude, boisterous, even uncouth, yet withal softened by sympathy for the under-dog, a boundless love for the weak, the friendless, the oppressed; lacking in profound intellectuality, yet supreme in the possession of the simple and homely virtues an upright and honourable character, a good citizen, a man tenacious of the sanctity of the domestic virtues.
I have witnessed the full play of the Irish passion for justice and sympathy for the under-dog, the man whom he was pleased to call the "average man," whose name never emerges to the public view.
It is a quality that has to be acquired. But the man of success and affairs ought to be the last person to complain of the difficulty of acquiring it. He has in his early days felt the whip-hand too often not to sympathise with the feelings of the under-dog. And he always knows that at some time in his career he, too, may need a merciful interpretation of a financial situation.
"Say you ain't never a-goin' to tell nobody, cross yo' heart," was the next command. "I say I ain't never going to tell nobody, cross my heart. Get up, Billy, 'fore you make me mad, and ain't no telling what I'll do to you if I get mad." "Say you's a low-down Jezebel skunk." "I ain't going to say I'm nothing of the kind," spiritedly replied the under-dog.
The gallery is always for the weaker player. It is a case of helping the "under-dog." If you are a consistent winner you must accustom yourself to having the gallery show partiality for your opponent. It is no personal dislike of you. It is merely a natural reaction in favour of the loser. Sometimes a bad decision to one play will win the crowd's sympathy for him.
I was going to call on you and to ask you to go out with me, because you have no private office." There was a nervous, under-dog kind of air about him. His damp lips revolted me "But what is it? What are all these preliminaries for? Come to the point and be done with it. What is it?"
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