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"Oh! brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do any thing else."
"Harry!"
"My dear fellow, I am not quite serious. But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that we can't stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. I quite sympathise with the rage of the English democracy in England against what they call the vices of the upper classes. They feel seem to think that drunkeness, and stupidity, and immorality should be their own special property, and that if any one of us makes an ass of himself we arehe is poaching on their preserves. When poor Southwark got into the Divorce Court, their indignationrage was quite magnificent. As yet I don't suppose that ten per cent of the lower orders live with their own wives."
"I don't agree with a single world that you have said, and, what is more, Harry, I don't believe you do either."
Lord Henry pulled his little straw colored moustache, and stroked his pointed Henry Deux
brown beard, and
