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These, and more subtle considerations, were the noblest eleton de Laney's doubts But perhaps they were no h the breach

man's decision

He had always lived so much at home that he had come to accept the home

point of vieithout question That is to say, he never examined the

value of his parent's ideas, because it never occurred to him to doubt

them He had no perspective

In a way, then, he accepted as axioms the social tenets held by his

mother, or the business methods practised by his father He believed

that elderly ralish He believed also that people should, in society,

conduct thened by

Mrs de Laney He believed these things, not because he was a fool, or

shallow, or lacking in hu had

ever happened to cause hiht appreciate what they really were One of these vieas, that

cultured people were of a class in themselves, and could not and should

not mix with other classes Mrs de Laney entertained a horror of

vulgarity So deep-rooted was this horror that a remote taint of it was

sufficient to thrust forever outside the pale of her approbation any

unfortunate who exhibited it She preferred stupidity to coood form, and the latter only with