Quotation from: Dubliners

Written by: James Joyce

"His father was a decent, respectable man," Mr. Henchy admitted.
"Poor old Larry Hynes! Many a good turn he did in his day! But I'm
greatly afraid our friend is not nineteen carat. Damn it, I can
understand a fellow being hard up, but what I can't understand is a
fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about
him?"

"He doesn't get a warm welcome from me when he comes," said
the old man. "Let him work for his own side and not come spying
around here."