THERE is one authority I have not yet seen consulted in the diverting debate about cads, snobs and bounders provoked by the behaviour of the Clark and Harkess families. This is Cardinal Newman, who said, simply, that 'it is almost a definition of a gentleman to say he is one who never inflicts pain'.
William Davey, London SW8
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