pride keeping word keeping miscreants. last triumph lunatics go dark r — G.K. Chesterton, Man Thursday: A Nightmare

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This very pride in keeping his word was that he was keeping it to miscreants. It was his last triumph over these lunatics to go down into their dark room and die for something that they could not even understand. The barrel-organ seemed to give the marching tune with the energy and the mingled noises of a whole orchestra; and he could hear deep and rolling, under all the trumpets of the pride of life, the drums of the pride of death.

G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

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