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Bulldog Drummond Collection, Volume 1 QUOTES

Bulldog Drummond Collection, Volume 1 QUOTES

1 " They were representative of the poorer type of clerk—the type which Woodbines its fingers to a brilliant orange; the type that screams insults at a football referee on Saturday afternoon. And yet to the close observer something more might be read on their faces: a greedy, hungry look, a shifty untrustworthy look—the look of those who are jealous of everyone better placed than themselves, but who are incapable of trying to better their own position except by the relative method of dragging back their more fortunate acquaintances; the look of little men dissatisfied not so much with their own littleness as with the bigness of other people. "

― Sapper , Bulldog Drummond Collection, Volume 1