| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 52 |
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At this there was another outburst of jeering laughter. `Supposing for example that you and Harlow were shipwrecked on a desolate island, and YOU had saved nothing from the wreck but a bag containing a thousand sovereigns, and he had a tin of biscuits and a bottle of water.' `Make it beer!' cried Harlow appealingly. `Who would be the richer man, you or Harlow?' `But then you see we ain't shipwrecked on no dissolute island at all,' sneered Crass. `That's the worst of your arguments. You can't never get very far without supposing some bloody ridclus thing or other. Never mind about supposing things wot ain't true; let's 'ave facts and common sense.' |
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