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We may blame the artizan class for improvidence, insobriety, and many other failings, but none who calmly compare the life of a clock-maker, for instance, condemned to spend twelve hours of the twenty-four in this laborious, unwholesome, and ill-remunerated labour, with that of the better classes, can wonder at his discontent.
He divined the true meaning of Our Lord's words to St. Peter: Thou art Peter and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. John was the disciple whom Jesus loved, but he chose Peter with all his failings and all his follies, with his weakness and his cowardice and his vanity.
"Time rolled on the memory of Constantine was remembered almost like that of a saint, and the respect paid to it threw into shadow the anecdote of his son's death. The exigencies of the state rendered it difficult to keep so large a sum in specie invested in a statue, which called to mind the unpleasant failings of so great a man.
But with all his failings his was still that exalted mind which had raised itself above the depression of its original condition, with all the energy of the lion pawing to free his hinder limbs from the yet encumbering earth. His health now began to give his friends serious concern. To Cunningham he wrote, February 24, 1794: 'For these two months I have not been able to lift a pen.
"However, I can understand and honor your reluctance to reveal Mrs. Fenley's failings. Now, please tell us exactly what Mr. Fenley and Mr. Robert said to each other in the hall last Saturday morning." How poor Farrow, immured in his jungle, would have gloated over Tomlinson's collapse when he heard those fatal words!
I am very glad I am here, for my machines are my own children, and I look on their little failings with a parent's eye and lead them into the path of duty with gentleness and firmness.
Though there's no reason why you should tell a stranger like myself how you stand, if you'd rather not, I know something of business and might see a way out of your difficulties." Benson hesitated. He would have resented an attempt to use his troubles as a text for improving remarks, for he fully appreciated his failings.
Sylvia sat down in an easy chair, adopting, as she invariably did, a becoming pose, and handed him George's letter. "He hasn't sent you very much," Herbert remarked. "No," said Sylvia, "that's the difficulty." "So I anticipated. You're not economical." Sylvia laughed. "I won't remind you of your failings. You have one virtue you can be liberal when it suits you; and you're my trustee."
Sincerely truthful and straightforward, he hardly knew whether to feel more disgust or surprise at Edwy's evident unfaithfulness. He little knew that unfaithfulness was only one of his failings, and not the worst.
"No, I'll go down to the station and ask him this afternoon before he goes out." Roy returned with the announcement that Apgar was sure Rex had not been on his train. "Then there is only one other theory." Mrs. Pell looked very grave as she spoke. "What is that, mother?" She did not reply at once. Reginald was very dear to her. She hated to expose his failings even to his own brother.
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