I feel defiled by breathing the same air with such a crowd of
card-sharpers and scoundrels."
"I say they were good honest gentlemen. Sir Thomas Leland was there,
and----"
"I don't care if they were all princes. They were a bad lot, and theft
and cards and brandy were written large on every sickly, wicked, white
face of them. O Harry, how dared you disgrace your family by keeping
such company?"
"No one but a Methodist preacher is respectable in your eyes, John.
Everyone in Hatton knew the Naylors, yet you gave them the same bad
names."
"And they deserved all and more than they got. They gambled with horses
instead of cards. They ran nobler animals than themselves to death for
money--and money for which neither labor nor its equivalent is given is
dishonest money and the man who puts it in his pocket is a thief and
puts hell in his pocket with it."
"John, if I were you I would use more gentlemanly language."
"O Harry! Harry! My dear, dear brother! I am speaking now not only for
myself but for mother and Lucy and your lovely children.
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