Resignation: 1. A truce with ourselves in order to give us time to bury our living. 2. Pride walling itself up. 3. To keep shop without a show-window. 4. To go to sleep in the lap of the inevitable. 5. A covered walk to the interior of ourselves; a subway to some other form of trespass; a peephole into the enemy's fortress. 6. To play possum when one hears the footfall of Fate on the stairs.
Reputation: A bubble which a man bursts when he tries to blow it for himself.
Resurrection: The hypothetical New-Year's Day in the calendar of the dead.
Remorse: That feeling which we all have when the thing fails to work, and the world knows it. The form that failure takes when it has made a grab and got nothing.
Respectability: The dickey on the bosom of civilization.