the book of snobs-第43节
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your shoes any more。 Your footmen do it; but they are
paid; and the fellow who comes to get a list of the
company when you give a banquet or a dancing breakfast at
Longueoreille House; gets money from the newspapers for
performing that service。 But for us; thank you for
nothing; Longears my boy; and we don't wish to pay you
any more than we owe。 We will take off our hats to
Wellington because he is Wellington; but to youwho are
you?〃
I am sick of COURT CIRCULARS。 I loathe HAUT…TON
intelligence。 I believe such words as Fashionable;
Exclusive; Aristocratic; and the like; to be wicked;
unchristian epithets; that ought to be banished from
honest vocabularies。 A Court system that sends men of
genius to the second table; I hold to be a Snobbish
system。 A society that sets up to be polite; and ignores
Arts and Letters; I hold to be a Snobbish society。 You;
who despise your neighbour; are a Snob; you; who forget
your own friends; meanly to follow after those of a
higher degree; are a Snob; you; who are ashamed of your
poverty; and blush for your calling; are a Snob; as are
you who boast of your pedigree; or are proud of your
wealth。
To laugh at such is MR。 PUNCH'S business。 May he laugh
honestly; hit no foul blow; and tell the truth when at
his very broadest grinnever forgetting that if Fun is
good; Truth is still better; and Love best of all。
End