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Polwarth, attributing to him the beginnings of all enlightenment he had himself ever received. Without this testimony, she would not have once thought of him. Indeed she had been more than a little doubtful of him, for she had never felt attracted to him, and from her knowledge of the unhealthy religious atmosphere of the chapel, had got unreasonably suspicious of cant.
Besides, I am told he is ever abusing the Catholics, and I heartily despise his nonsensical, lying cant." "Well, Anne, I am determined to punish you for it," calmly replied the mistress. "So you can't see the priest to-day. That settles it." "I beg your pardon, ma'am; the priest I will see, please God, let what will happen." "You must leave this house, then." "Small loss, madam.
One of the significant things about these sermons by Mr. Roosevelt I call them sermons because he frequently himself uses the phrase, "I preach" is that nobody spoke, or apparently thought the word cant in connection with them.
"Nearly two years." "Then how can you call it home?" "I do that only that I may speak your language. Of course, it is not my real home." "Where is the real home?" "I hope it is in heaven," she said, with a simplicity that took away all taint of cant or mere phrase-making. "But where do you come from?" "I come from Montreal." "Oh! and don't you ever go back to visit your people?"
And by a similar series of concessions, eventually, but with longer delay, he gave up another practice, for which his conscience checked him dancing. All these improvements in his conduct were a source of much complacency to himself, though all this while he wanted the soul-emancipating and sin-subduing knowledge of Jesus Christ. The Son had not made him free. There is such a thing as cant.
Hence all the insufferable cant about happy infancy, and 'the glorious schoolboy days, which have generally no more foundation in fact than have the 'Chateaux en Espagne' we build up for the future. I wager that the real Amant d'enfance, when he arrives, is not half so great a friend with the fair Amelie as his unworthy shadow.
Fanshaw," replied the gentleman to whom the remark was made. "In God? I don't know him." And Mr. Fanshaw shook his head, in a bewildered sort of way. There was no levity in his manner. "People talk a great deal about God, and their knowledge of him," he added, but not irreverently. "I think there is often more of pious cant in all this than of living experience. You speak about faith in God.
It's so long since you rote any. Mister Recketts ses you dont care any more. Wen you rite send your fotograff. Folks here ses I aint got no big bruther any way, as I disremember his looks, and cant say wots like him. Cissy's kryin' all along of it. I've got a hedake. William Walker make it ake by a blo. So no more at present from your loving little bruther Jim.
The visitors, indeed, were by no means of the turbulent stamp of their predecessors; but quiet, mysterious traders, full of nods, and winks, and hieroglyphic signs, with whom, to use their cant phrase, "every thing was smug."
These time-worn expressions pass current, at face value, among enthusiastic relatives and friends, but there are those in the audience who know them to be the veriest cant, with no basis either in logic or in common sense. It is nothing short of foolishness to assert that a young person must attain the age of eighteen years before he enters real life.
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