“ Thrashing a brute hardly answers nowadays, but if ever a man deserved a thrashing he does. ”
Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux (1874). copy citation
| Author | Anthony Trollope |
|---|---|
| Source | Phineas Redux |
| Topic | brute |
| Date | 1874 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18640/18640-h/18640-h.htm |
Context
“said Chiltern.
"His name has not been mentioned to me," said Mr. Low. "Was there not a quarrel?"
"Yes;"—said Phineas. "I quarrelled with Mr. Bonteen."
"What then?"
"He behaved like a brute;—as he always does. Thrashing a brute hardly answers nowadays, but if ever a man deserved a thrashing he does."
"He has been murdered," said Mr. Low.
The reader need hardly be told that, as regards this great offence, Phineas Finn was as white as snow. The maintenance of any doubt on that matter,—were it even desirable to maintain a doubt,—would be altogether beyond the power of the present writer.”
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