Excerpt from George and Son

He wears a frock-coat and top-hat in London and Paris, was the reply, he doesn't drink, he doesn't make love to pretty housemaids in country houses, he goes to bed at twelve and gets up at half-past eight, and pays all the trades men whom everybody pays, and never has a row with the others, and has the most perfect instinct as to the company in which it is or is not safe to tell an improper story. What more do you want? I call him perfectly respectable.

But you're prejudiced, my dear friend. You admit that he makes you laugh. You would say anything in favour of a man who did that. You called Cuthbert a poet because he wrote an ode to Peggy with two jokes in it.

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