"Stung to tears, not so much by the rebuke as by the presence of Hynes and Conway, whom he despised, Peter retorted by calling Mick 'a crawthumper' and 'a bourgeois parasite', and stamped off, in real despair this time." - Frank O'Connor, 'First Love'.
"Stung to tears, not so much by the rebuke as by the presence of Hynes and Conway, whom he despised, Peter retorted by calling Mick 'a crawthumper' and 'a bourgeois parasite', and stamped off, in real despair this time."
- Frank O'Connor, 'First Love'.
Ostentatiously pious individual.