You--yes, you and the whole place are, in every sense of the word, Conservative--that is to say, brutally satisfied with the present ordering of things."
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After a pause, he continued:
"There is no asceticism in Sussex, there is no yearning for anything higher or better.
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With a quick movement of his hands he seemed to spurn the entire materialism of Sussex.
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There was rapture in John's eyes.
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In that southern county all is soft and lascivious; there is no wildness, none of that scenical grandeur which we find in Scotland and Ireland, and which is emblematic of the yearning of man's soul for something higher than this mean and temporal life."
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And the aspect of the county tallies exactly with the state of soul of its people.
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Why, even the downs are easy, yes, easy as one of the upholsterer's armchairs of the villa residences.
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Sussex is utterly opposed to the monastic spirit.
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Oh, it is horrible; I cannot think of Sussex without a revulsion of feeling.
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The villas with their gables, and railings, and laurels, the snug farm-houses, the market-gardening, but especially the villas, so representative of a sleepy smug materialism...
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Now let us think of Sussex....
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"Well, roast beef and plum pudding, say what you like, is a very complete figuration of the Protestant ideal.
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"Never mind," said Mr Hare smiling; "continue: we were talking of roast beef and plum pudding--"
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But I beg your pardon--I had really forgotten..."
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"No, you don't understand.
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If your dislike of Protestantism rests only on roast beef and plum pudding..."
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"You surely do not mean that you would prefer to see the people starving?
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But it will be hard to bear with the plain Protestantism, the smug materialism of Sussex at such a season; and when one thinks what the day is commemorative of--"
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Well, I suppose I ought to.
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"Christmas!
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"Then why do you not come home and spend Christmas with your mother!"
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"You thought it was for the sake of the architecture...."
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"I can't say that I can suggest anything for the moment, but I thought it was for the sake of the architecture, which I frankly confess I don't in the least admire, that you lived here."
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When she is in a passion she hits on the very happiest concurrence of words; and I must say she is right,--the architecture here is appallingly ugly; and I don't think anything could be done to improve it, do you?"
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It sounds very shocking, doesn't it? to have a beautiful place in Sussex and not to live there: to prefer an ugly red-brick college--Birmingham Tudor; my mother invented the expression.
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"Three years!
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"It must be very nearly that; I missed you the last time you were at Thornby Place, and that was three years ago."
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And I'll show you over the college: you have never been her before, and now I come to reckon it up, I find I have not seen you for nearly five years."
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I want to talk to you; but we shall have plenty of time presently; you'll stay and dine?
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This is very serious, but it is very difficult to arrive at the truth.
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