“ A chap like me is incapable of looking like a gentleman. ”
George Orwell, Coming Up for Air (1939). copy citation
| Author | George Orwell |
|---|---|
| Source | Coming Up for Air |
| Topic | gentleman |
| Date | 1939 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200031.txt |
Context
“It seems to take all the bounce out of you, like when you suddenly discover in a public place that the sole of one of your shoes is coming off. I had no illusions about myself that morning. It was almost as if I could stand at a distance and watch myself coming down the road, with my fat, red face and my false teeth and my vulgar clothes. A chap like me is incapable of looking like a gentleman. Even if you saw me at two hundred yards' distance you'd know immediately--not, perhaps, that I was in the insurance business, but that I was some kind of tout or salesman. The clothes I was wearing were practically the uniform of the tribe.”
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