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He ought never to have gone to Trinity, that monster packet of
everything. He ought to have gone to some little GOOD college, good
all through. She ought to have asked some one who KNEW.

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One glowing afternoon in October, as these two young men came over
Magdalen Bridge after a long disputatious and rather tiring walk to
Drayton--they had been talking of Eugenics and the "family"--Benham
was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord
Breeze. "Whup there!" said Lord Breeze in a voice deliberately
brutal, and Benham, roused from that abstraction which is partly
fatigue, had to jump aside and stumbled against the parapet as the
gaunt pacer went pounding by.
Lord Breeze grinned the sort of grin a man remembers. And passed.
"Damnation!" said Benham with a face that had become suddenly very
white.
Then presently. "Any fool can do that who cares to go to the
trouble."
"That," said Prothero, taking up their unquenchable issue, "that is
the feeling of democracy."
"I walk because I choose to," said Benham.


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