Sentence:  It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently , too , for his audience , who could indulge in moral indignation without visible , or even conscious , discomfort , their money from the transaction having been put away <WSD>long</WSD> ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ) . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  of the distant or comparatively distant past