The Way We Live Now

Description

A searing parody fixated on the monetary outrages of Victorian England, just as the inescapable unscrupulousness of the age, in business, political, good, and scholarly habits.

Book Excerpt

rtain women said that they could recognize in his tongue the smallest conceivable unfamiliar complement. By and by it was yielded to him that he knew England as just an Englishman can know it. During the most recent year or two he had ‘come up’ as the expression goes, and had come up altogether. He had been renounced at three or four clubs, however had affected a passageway at a few others, and had taken in a way of those which had dismissed him determined to leave on the brains of listeners a conviction that the social orders being referred to were out of date,