What he said was thus most respectfully listened to. There was something we had in common. “What have you got hold of?” he would say, looking over my shoulder at the book I was reading; and how proud, ...
When Gerald learns the truth, he priggishly demands that Dad does the right thing by Mum and marries her. The emotional extremes of the story are buttressed by scintillating high society chatter ...
It is easy for the holier-than-thou supporters of ‘life’ to feel priggishly righteous about their stand, but then some kind of voluntary openness to death is also common among most religions.