[Edinburgh by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookEdinburgh CHAPTER X 17/33
Cambridge Circus, W.C. Footnotes: {10} These sentences have, I hear, given offence in my native town, and a proportionable pleasure to our rivals of Glasgow.
I confess the news caused me both pain and merriment.
May I remark, as a balm for wounded fellow-townsmen, that there is nothing deadly in my accusations? Small blame to them if they keep ledgers: 'tis an excellent business habit. Churchgoing is not, that ever I heard, a subject of reproach; decency of linen is a mark of prosperous affairs, and conscious moral rectitude one of the tokens of good living.
It is not their fault it the city calls for something more specious by way of inhabitants.
A man in a frock-coat looks out of place upon an Alp or Pyramid, although he has the virtues of a Peabody and the talents of a Bentham.
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