And yet how
thoroughly
he has caught the note
that catches a public who think with their boots and read with their
elbows!
that catches a public who think with their boots and read with their
elbows!
Kipling - Poems
I hope you keep him
properly humble. He wants suppressing from time to time. "
"He does. He's beginning to take liberties with what he thinks is his
reputation. "
"Already! By Jove, he has cheek! I don't know about his reputation, but
he'll come a cropper if he tries that sort of thing. "
"So I told him. I don't think he believes it. "
"They never do when they first start off. What's that wreck on the
ground there? "
"Specimen of his latest impertinence. " Torpenhow thrust the torn edges
of the canvas together and showed the well-groomed picture to the
Nilghai, who looked at it for a moment and whistled.
"It's a chromo," said he,--"a chromo-litholeomargarine fake! What
possessed him to do it?
And yet how thoroughly he has caught the note
that catches a public who think with their boots and read with their
elbows! The cold-blooded insolence of the work almost saves it; but
he mustn't go on with this. Hasn't he been praised and cockered up too
much? You know these people here have no sense of proportion. They'll
call him a second Detaille and a third-hand Meissonier while his fashion
lasts. It's windy diet for a colt. "
"I don't think it affects Dick much. You might as well call a young
wolf a lion and expect him to take the compliment in exchange for a
shin-bone. Dick's soul is in the bank. He's working for cash. "
"Now he has thrown up war work, I suppose he doesn't see that the
obligations of the service are just the same, only the proprietors are
changed. "
"How should he know? He thinks he is his own master. "
"Does he? I could undeceive him for his good, if there's any virtue in
print. He wants the whiplash.
properly humble. He wants suppressing from time to time. "
"He does. He's beginning to take liberties with what he thinks is his
reputation. "
"Already! By Jove, he has cheek! I don't know about his reputation, but
he'll come a cropper if he tries that sort of thing. "
"So I told him. I don't think he believes it. "
"They never do when they first start off. What's that wreck on the
ground there? "
"Specimen of his latest impertinence. " Torpenhow thrust the torn edges
of the canvas together and showed the well-groomed picture to the
Nilghai, who looked at it for a moment and whistled.
"It's a chromo," said he,--"a chromo-litholeomargarine fake! What
possessed him to do it?
And yet how thoroughly he has caught the note
that catches a public who think with their boots and read with their
elbows! The cold-blooded insolence of the work almost saves it; but
he mustn't go on with this. Hasn't he been praised and cockered up too
much? You know these people here have no sense of proportion. They'll
call him a second Detaille and a third-hand Meissonier while his fashion
lasts. It's windy diet for a colt. "
"I don't think it affects Dick much. You might as well call a young
wolf a lion and expect him to take the compliment in exchange for a
shin-bone. Dick's soul is in the bank. He's working for cash. "
"Now he has thrown up war work, I suppose he doesn't see that the
obligations of the service are just the same, only the proprietors are
changed. "
"How should he know? He thinks he is his own master. "
"Does he? I could undeceive him for his good, if there's any virtue in
print. He wants the whiplash.
