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`` Listen ! If I have chosen to be a clergyman , it 's not because I 've lived all my life in cotton wool . Let me tell you what the lives of such men really are -- the best of them , the very best . He gets up at noon , walks in the park , takes tea with some one , grunts and groans that he must go to somebody 's dinner party , escapes to the Gaiety Theatre , sups at a so-called club -- '' `` You mean Lord Robert . But what right have you to say -- '' `` The right of one who knows him to be as bad as this , and worse -- ten times worse ! Such a man thinks he has a right to play with a girl if she is poor . She may stake her soul , her salvation , but he risks nothing .