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Some of 'em know me. They'd be good at it, those fellows. I've heard of good things said by 'em. But there they sit, and they've got no circulation ain't ready, except at old women, or when they catch you in a mess, and getting the worst of it. Let me tell you; you'll never get manly chaff out of big bundles o' fellows with ne'er an atom o' circulation. The river's the place for that.
Reed Opdyke's chaff, meant in all good nature, had struck home to the very marrow of his self-distrust. He had clambered to a pedestal where he stood and preached banal things which, in reality, he doubted, and smiled at his congregation, and sniffed contentedly at the fumes of incense rising about him, incense of which he was but too well aware.
Thy fortune in this world is but delusion and regret; Thy life in it but vanity and empty chaff and awn. The world, indeed, is but as 'twere a traveller's halting-place, Who makes his camels kneel at eve and fares on with the dawn. And he continued to weep and lament, whilst the stoker wept too for the loss of his wife, yet ceased not to comfort Zoulmekan till the morning.
The boys sat round upon the grass; behind them were the carriages and coaches you could drive on to the ground then! and here and there, only here and there, a tent or a small stand. Consule Planco the parson loves a Latin tag the match was an immense picnic for Harrovians and Etonians. And, my word, you ought to have heard the chaff when an unlucky fielder put the ball on the floor.
She was under Danish colours, and had made, it was evident, some ludicrous attempts at disguising herself such, for instance, as a studied disarrangement of her yards, and some alteration of her head-booms. I was under the impression at the time that we were very old birds to be caught with such chaff.
I made too many professions at first; I will make no more now, but only tell you that I trust to do my utmost, and not shrink from my duties. And now, not a word more about it till you are better. One furnace many times the good and bad will hold; But what consumes the chaff will only cleanse the gold.
All the sympathy that ought to have been devoted to the wounded man he diverted to himself by the tremendous fuss he made about his injured shins, and this, and the chaff he had to sustain in consequence, quite rounded off the affair, and we all went home in high good humour, and the wounded man for years afterwards used to show his ear-to-ear scar with considerable satisfaction.
I managed to get him safe back to camp Heaven knows how! and they made me a lance-corporal, and the beggar says I saved his life; but it was really through carrying a fat letter from his sister not even his sweetheart. We chaff him at missing such a romantic chance. He got off with a flesh wound, but there is a great blot of red ink on the letter.
Bet did not object she turned at once in the right direction, walking so fast that Will began to chaff her. "You take my breath away," he said. "You forget that I've got sea- legs, and ain't a match for the land folks when they go at that pace." "Oh, Will if you could be in earnest!" said poor Bet. "I'm hurrying 'cause it's life or death to me.
He had never noticed before that she was so sensitive to trifles, though it was notorious that nobody could safely discuss Cyril with her in terms of chaff. He was really astounded at that youth's carelessness, shameful carelessness.
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