Broke of Covenden (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Broke of Covenden Walking in Piccadilly yesterday morning I met the Complete Englishman. He was miracle of gloss and gravity. Civilization shone about him like an aureole; the University of Oxford oozed from every pore. The set of his coat, the hang of his trousers, his boots, his tie, his gloves, his umbrella, all had the aplomb which means at least three generations of high feeding. Suddenly, who came ruffling it round the corner of Bond Street but rude Boreas, saluted this paladin with a freedom that ill became a gentleman, knocked off the hat that Mr. Lock had ironed not a quarter of an hour before, cast a speck of mud on the faultless spats, while in the agitation of the moment the glass hopped from the well-trained eye and was shivered into little bits upon the pavement. Now, was not that a piece of poor behaviour? The bystanders were agreed that Arrius himself could not have been so guilty. And while a district messenger retrieved the hat from the threshold of the Burlington Arcade, whither it had been carried by the gale, while a knight of the vestry swept the glass into the gutter, and a policeman called a hansom, I was moved to reflect upon the melancholy affair. Newton had his mind directed to the law of gravity by the fall of an apple; the fall of my countryman´s hat directed my own to one hardly less momentous. That the gods must have their jest was an old saying in the time of Plato. All down the page of history, in point of fact, it has been the lament of refined and educated minds. The Olympian sense of humour is very positive, if not always academic. That is our complaint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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