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These bookworm women, whose pride it is to fancy that they can think for themselves, have a great deal of the heathen in them, as morality discovers when it wears the enlistment ribands and applies yo them to win recruits for a service under the direct blessing of Providence. Lady Wathin left some darts behind her, in the form of moral exclamations; and really intended morally.
MacCarthy was a bookworm from Maynooth, who played the deuce with the diocese, allowing all the priests to run wild, and by his laxity becoming criminally responsible for much of the terrible condition of Kerry. Higgins was the nominee of a friend of Moriarty, and he worked hard to suppress outrages, by which course he certainly did not add to his popularity among his flock.
As why shouldn't he enjoy his holiday now and then, and have a bit of relaxation as well as other men? Acquiescent token on the part of the new dignitary, Squire Pole. Spokesman was hereby encouraged to put it boldly, whether a man was not a man all the world over. "For a' that!" was sung out by some rare bookworm to rearward: but no Scot being present, no frenzy followed the quotation.
"Generally, however," observed he, as they passed from one dark alcove to another, "the library is of little worth, except to show how much of living truth each generation contributes to the botheration of life, and what a public benefactor a bookworm is, after all. There, now! did you ever happen to see one?
"Yes," the deep bass rumbled in the empty chapel, "he's one of us. Extremely honest. I'm I'm very sorry. There may be trouble." "Must be, sir," prompted the younger. "The mob, meanwhile, just stood there, dumb, mutes and audience, you know. All at once, the hindmost began squalling 'Foreign Dog, 'Goat Man. We stepped outside, and there, passing, if you like, was that gentle bookworm, Mr. Fang."
This bookworm had always one sure refuge in trouble books. Have we ever properly recognised the mystery and magic that lies in that word, the magic that allows a man to lead ever so many other lives than his own, to be other people, to travel where he has never been, to laugh with folk he has never seen, to know their sorrows as he can never know the sorrows of "real people" and their joys.
On the way they dropped the red-faced farmer and his hands, who clearly regarded the professor as some sort of an amiable lunatic. But that worthy man, supremely happy despite his wet clothes, was quite contented, and from time to time dipped into his satchel, like a bookworm into a favorite volume, and drew out a particularly valued specimen and admired it.
In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and bookworm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below!
On the other hand, the boy of studious disposition, who is somewhat of a bookworm, keeps close to the house and does not play with other children of his age, will probably find time for much introspection, and on this account, as well as on account of the lack of fresh air and exercise, will probably be in a physical condition that of itself demands careful attention.
He had sat almost in this very place, with his mother, who had taken pains to bring him to see it as an historic spectacle which he might wish to remember. A quiet, dull woman, his mother taciturn, and something of a bookworm. She had never understood him, nor he her.
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