John Morley: “They passed abruptly and without remorse from a penitential procession…”

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They passed abruptly and without remorse from a penitential procession to the tavern and the brothel.

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Morley describes the abrupt moral shifts of the Limousins, highlighting their complex character.

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I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

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John Morley: “They passed abruptly and without remorse from a penitential procession to the tavern and the brothel.”