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Lord Kilgobbin

CHAPTER XI
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The natural selection, however, where honesty is in the series, is a slow proceeding, and the organic changes are very complicated.
As I know, however, you attach value to the effect you produce in that coat, I'll go and recover it.

I shall not need Terence or Juvenal till we come back, and I'll leave them in the avuncular hands till then.' 'I wonder you're not ashamed of these miserable straits.' 'I am very much ashamed of the world that imposes them on me.

I'm thoroughly ashamed of that public in lacquered leather, that sees me walking in broken boots.

I'm heartily ashamed of that well-fed, well-dressed, sleek society, that never so much as asked whether the intellectual-looking man in the shabby hat, who looked so lovingly at the spiced beef in the window, had dined yet, or was he fasting for a wager ?' 'There, don't carry away that newspaper; I want to read over that pleasant paragraph again!'.


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