Trouble with Quality by John Glasworthy.

[Vatsalya Chugh]

I think I do not completely understand the 7 paragraph. A lot of different interpretation run through my mind, so could you guys tell me what do you understand by this?


When one grew old and wild and ran up bills, one somehow never ran them up with Gessler Brothers. It would not have seemed becoming to go in there and stretch out one's foot to that blue iron-spectacled glance, owing him for more than--say--two pairs, just the comfortable reassurance that one was still his client.

The complete essay is here:

http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/Quality.htm

[cafolini]

It is an extraordinary piece. What probably had happened in this context is tacit. Probably there were enough people distrusting Mr. Gessler artistry and Glasworthy wanted to offer an independent judgment without getting entangled with stupidity. So he defends the integrity of the shop without any outside help from idiots. And he makes that statement to appreciate being a free client of the Gessler shop. Two pairs of shoes in many years did not make him more than that.
This makes impact on me because I used to work the beautiful leather in large quantities and was a provider to Marruecan jews that had migrated to Argentina, escaping Franco's persecution after the civil war, where, a decade and a half later, I was a young adolescent. I did meet artists of the leather and I grasp what Glasworthy is talking about. The way he does it is just as artfull as the way of what he describes.