[Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPut Yourself in His Place CHAPTER VII 18/23
This curious chapter of the human mind really deserves a separate heading, and we introduce it to our readers as "THE LITERATURE OF OUTRAGE." "'First of all comes a letter to the master intimating that he is doing something objectionable to some one of the many Unions that go to make a single implement of hardware.
This letter has three features.
It is signed with a real name.
It is polite.
It is grammatical. "'If disregarded, it is speedily followed by another.No.2 is grammatical, or thereabouts; but, under a feigned politeness, the insolence of a vulgar mind shows itself pretty plainly, and the master is reminded what he suffered on some former occasion when he rebelled against the trades.
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