| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1566 |
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to break their chains; when I tried to show them how they might save their children from poverty and shameful servitude, I did not want them to give me money. I did it for love. And they paid me with hatred and injury. But since I have been helping their masters to rob them, they have treated me with respect.' Barrington made no reply and the other man, having returned the money to his pocket, indicated the crowd with a sweep of his hand. `Look at them!' he continued with a contemptuous laugh. `Look at them! the people you are trying to make idealists of! Look at them! Some of them howling and roaring like wild beasts, or laughing like idiots, others standing with dull and stupid faces devoid of any trace of intelligence or expression, listening to the speakers whose words convey no meaning to their stultified minds, and others |
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