18/40 All this is inconceivable to us--as inconceivable as another custom of that time, namely, the habit the men of the lower classes had of breaking the furniture when they quarrelled with their wives. "It is so short-sighted on the part of the workingmen. How can they hope to keep our sympathy--" "When we are compelled to walk," Ernest said slyly. Men should be men, not brutes. There will be violence and murder now, and sorrowing widows and orphans. |