In the shadow under the green visor of the cap Ignatius J. Reilly’s superciliousblue and yellow eyes looked down upon the other people waiting under the clock atthe D. H. Holmes department store, studying the crowd of people for signs of badtaste in dress.
Is it true that, from an appreciation of the lustre which would reflect back uponhimself from allowing his son to become a decidedly fashionable young man, hehad encouraged him in extravagance, dissipation, and heartless worldliness; hehad brought him up to be supercilious, expensive, unprincipled, and useless.
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