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The Skin Game, by John Galsworthy.
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About the new wealth of trade and industry, encroaching on old landed gentry, but without the breeding or bringing up to understand the noblesse oblige creed of looking after the tenants, or of carrying out promises.
And as they blunder on, goading the neighbourhood beyond endurance, they forget others can play those games too, only, they've not done so for a while.
"HILLCRIST. I'd forgotten their existence. [He gets up] What is it that gets loose when you begin a fight, and makes you what you think you're not? What blinding evil! Begin as you may, it ends in this —skin game! Skin game!
"JILL. [Rushing to him] It's not you, Dodo; it's not you, beloved Dodo.
"HILLCRIST. It is me. For I am, or should be, master in this house!
"MRS. H. I don't understand.
"HILLCRIST. When we began this fight, we had clean hands—are they clean' now? What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?"
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June 10, 2021 - June 13, 2021.
Purchased June 14, 2013.
Kindle Edition, 116 pages
Published May 17th 2012
(first published 1920)
Original Title
The Skin Game
ASIN:- B0084B3X4W
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