Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Name: The Flying Inn — Chapter VII
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

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“The Flying Inn — Chapter VII”, published in 1914, is a work by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. It explores elements such as boo, oots and Joan.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ You complain if in your drawing-rooms is the marching about of muddy boo-oots. Are any of your drawing-rooms marked thus with the marching about of muddy hats? How very many of your husbands kick you with the boo-oot! Yet how few of your husbands on any occasion butt you with the hat?'"
He looked round with a radiant seriousness, which made Lady Joan almost as speechless for sympathy as she was for amusement. With all that was most sound in his too complicated soul she realised the presence of a man really convinced. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ When in your House of Commons you put a hundred English members and joost one little Welsh member, you do not say 'The Welshman is on top; he is our Sultan; may he live for ever!' If your jury contained eleven great large ladies and one leetle man you would not say 'this is unfair to the great large ladies.' Why should you shrink, then, ladies, from this great polygamical experiment which Lord Ivywood himself--"
Joan's dark eyes were still fixed on the wrinkled, patient face of the lecturer, but every word of the rest of the lecture was lost to her. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ For I come from Castlepatrick and my heart is on my
sleeve,
But a lady stole it from me on St. Gallowglass's Eve."
Startlingly and with strong pain there sprang up before Joan's eyes a patch of broken heath with a very deep hollow of white sand, blinding in the sun. No words, no name, only the place.
"The folks that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots;
They go to Hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.
Where men may not be dancin', though the wheels may
dance all day;
And men may not be smokin', but only chimneys may. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ That we fail especially in our treatment of the womankind. I appeal to any lady, to any Christian lady. Is not the boo-oot more devastating, more dreaded in the home than the hat? The boot jumps, he bound, he run about, he break things, he leave on the carpet the earths of the garden. The hat, he remain quiet on his hat-peg. Look at him on his hat-peg; how quiet and good he remain! Why not let him remain quiet also on his head?"
Lady Joan applauded warmly, as did several other ladies, and the sage went on, encouraged. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ Can you not therefore trust, dear ladies, this great religion to understand you concerning other things, as it understands you regarding boo-oots? What is the common objection our worthy enemies make against our polygamy? That it is disdainful of the womanhood. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ I have long been increasingly convinced that underneath a certain mask of stiffness which the Mahommedan religion has worn through certain centuries, as a somewhat similar mask has been worn by the religion of the Jews, Islam has in it the potentialities of being the most progressive of all religions; so that a century or two to come we may see the cause of peace, of science and of reform everywhere supported by Islam as it is everywhere supported by Israel. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ No man assuredly has done more of this mighty work of unity than the brilliant and distinguished philosopher to whom you will have the pleasure of listening tonight; and I profoundly wish that affairs more practical, for I will not call them more important, did not prevent my remaining to enjoy his eloquence, as I have so often enjoyed it before. Mr. Leveson has kindly consented to take my place, and I can do no more than express my deep sympathy with the aims and ideals which will be developed before you tonight. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ And if you do not refu-use the sun that returns and rises in the East with every morning, you will not refu-use either this great social experiment, this great polygamical method which also arose out of the East, and always returns. For this is that Higher Polygamy which always comes, like the sun itself, out of the orient, but is only at its noontide splendour when the sun is high in heaven. ”

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Flying Inn — Chapter VII (1914)

“ He said there would be a crowd if I stood on the doorstep, holding in my hand my boo-oots. Well, I do not know why, in your country you always send the young males to be the first of your crowds. They certainly were making a number of noises, the young males. ”

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