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Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"

Because
you are willing to do that, you are one of the 'big four.' Because we
are willing to do our task, we differentiate into the 'four hundred.'
You mustn't think society doesn't grind up brain-tissue. But we use so
much in running it, that we don't have enough for other subjects, and so
you think we are stupid. I remember a woman once saying she didn't like
conversazioni, 'because they are really brain-parties, and there is
never enough to go round, and give a second help,' Any way, how can you
expect society to talk anything but society, when men like yourself stay
away from it."
"I don't ask you to talk anything else. But let me keep out of it."
"'He's not the man for Galway'," hummed Watts. "He prefers talking to
'heelers,' and 'b'ys,' and 'toughs,' and other clever, intellectual
men."
"I like to talk to any one who is working with a purpose in life."
"I say, Peter, what do those fellows really say of us?"
"I can best describe it by something Miss De Voe once said.


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