No one who has not been bankrupt at least twice could afford to be so careful about his dress as Mr. Richmond is, ‚ said Josephine.’He admits a solitary bankruptcy, ‚ said Amber. ‚Bankruptcy is the official recognition of genius.“It certainly is the shortest way to distinction, ‚ said Josephine. ‚Bankruptcy’s a sort of English Legion of Honour, isn’t it?—a kind of bourgeois decoration.“To genius, ‚ said Amber, with the nod of one who completes a quotation that some one else has begun. ‚Mr. Richmond is really very clever.“Now you contradict yourself—a moment ago you said he was a genius—and being a genius is just the opposite to being clever, ‚ laughed Josephine. ‚Is this your syllogism: Geniuses become bankrupt, Mr. Richmond becomes bankrupt, therefore he is a genius?“Well, that wasn’t quite what was in my mind. I suppose that to have the Homeric attribute of nodding scarcely makes one a Homer?‘
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