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"Here is the affidavit of E. Wadsworth Arledge: "'I have been brought up in idleness, under the idea that I was to inherit a large estate. I have never acquired any business habits so as to fit me to acquire property, or to make me take care of it.
Neither books nor public questions will interest him; his leisure moments will be a time of idleness and unbearable tedium; a whole world the world of the mind will be closed to him, with its joys, pleasures and comforts which are many.
For every fair day's work you shall have a fair day's wages, and, for every bit of idleness, a fair thrashing. Do you agree?" The youth pretended to laugh the thing off, but slunk away, and was seen no more till eating time arrived, and "Lady Macruadh's" well-filled baskets were opened. "And who wouldn't see a better coat on his chief!" cried the little tailor.
For all his life of idleness, which was, as it were, accidental, Peter was essentially a man of action; and life's sedentary movements irked him sorely. "Who is the individual monkeying around at the bow?" he asked presently. "It is Mr. Bissett, the ship's engineer, who is putting a coat of white lead over the yacht's name." "Aha! Aren't we old-sleuthy, though!
"You're not working," she observed perfunctorily. I nodded assent. I often wonder, to tell the truth, when I do work. Even when no one is by to tell me of it, I seem to spend most of my time in idleness. "I was thinking," I said. Perhaps I was. She came up to my chair and looked out too. "About you know last night?" she asked.
'But how you do work, Mr. Crewe! It's marvellous. And yet you look so well, you have really a seaside colour! 'I never ailed much since I can remember. The harder I work, the better I feel. 'I, too, have always been rather proud of my constitution. Her eyes dropped. 'But then I have led a life of idleness. Couldn't you make me useful in some way? Set me to work!
He had obtained some honour in Spain; he aimed at others even higher, and hoped to return to France with all the honours of a Prince of the Blood. His idleness, his free living, his debauchery, had prolonged his stay upon the frontier, where he had more facilities for gratifying his tastes than at Madrid.
Don Quixote now felt it right to quit a life of such idleness as he was leading in the castle; for he fancied that he was making himself sorely missed by suffering himself to remain shut up and inactive amid the countless luxuries and enjoyments his hosts lavished upon him as a knight, and he felt too that he would have to render a strict account to heaven of that indolence and seclusion; and so one day he asked the duke and duchess to grant him permission to take his departure.
After a brief period of rest, which meant a little quiet "reading, writing, working, and drawing" a far better sedative for excited nerves than entire idleness the Queen and the Prince attended a flower-show in the grounds of Downing College, walking round the gardens and entering into all the six tents, "a very formidable undertaking, for the heat was beyond endurance and the crowd fearful."
Ian Stewart, too, neglected the orange and went in for hand-in-hand figures that season. Other things, too, he neglected; work, which he had never before allowed to suffer measurably from causes within his control; and far from blushing for his idleness, he rejoiced in it, as the surest sign of all that for him the Festival of Spring had come in the time of nature's frost.
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