The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men
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By Max Beerbohm
3 Jun, 2020
Brief Extract: Lord George Hell did, at last, atone for all his faults, in a way that was never revealed to the world during his lifetime. The reason for his strange and sudden disappearance from that social sphere in which he had so long moved, and
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Brief Extract: Lord George Hell did, at last, atone for all his faults, in a way that was never revealed to the world during his lifetime. The reason for his strange and sudden disappearance from that social sphere in which he had so long moved, and never moved again, I will unfold. My little readers will then, I think, acknowledge that any angry judgment they may have passed upon him must be reconsidered and, maybe, withdrawn. I will leave his Lordship in their hands. But my plea for him will not be based upon that Candour of his, which some of his friends so much admired. There were, yes! some so weak and so wayward as to think it a fine thing to have a historic title and no scruples. "Here comes George Hell," they would say. "How wicked my Lord is looking!" Noblesse obliges, you see, and so an aristocrat should be very careful of his good name. Anonymous naughtiness does little harm. Less
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