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Both had aches in their left arms from the M.O.'s latest injection, and altogether they considered themselves much-abused, long-suffering soldiers. Vague rumours floated round, some doubtless originating from that indispensable apparatus of every camp, the backyard wireless station.
There was a good deal of discussion over the Lesters' history, but Gwen dismissed the subject in her usual way. 'Major Lester is another Jacob. There's nothing more to be said, and Mr. Tom is a much-abused and misunderstood man! Agatha began to settle into her new life very happily.
"Have they ever learned a trade?" that we may prove what we already know, that idle fingers are the devil's tools; "Have they been educated?" by any one of the sorry methods that take shelter under that much-abused word, that we may know whether ignorance is a bliss or a blister; "Are they married or single?" that we may determine the influence of home ties; "Have they been given to the use of liquor?" that we may heap proof on proof, mountain high, against the monster evil of intemperance; "What has been their family history?" that we may know how heavily the law of heredity has laid its burdens upon them.
He was quite a picture as he came in a fashion-plate, and as such I coolly regarded him fresh, fair, and smiling, looking younger, if possible, than when we parted a year before, and handsome, as that much-abused word goes, in his debonair, off-hand style of appearance. Yet no beggar in rags ever appeared to me half so loathly as did this speckless dandy!
At times it poured, which really does not happen often in much-abused London; but even heavy rain is not so depressing in spring as it is in winter, and when the Primadonna raised her eyes from her book and looked out of the big window, she was not thinking of the dreariness outside but of what she should wear in the evening.
It is not within the scope of my book, however, to speak of family relations, or I should have much to say on the subject of English mothers ay, and of English fathers, and sisters, and brothers too. Neither have I room to speak of our private schools. What I have to say is about public schools those much-abused and much-belauded institutions peculiar to England.
In this way the French authorities hoped to create a powerful military colony with a feudal hierarchy as its outstanding feature. Feudalism is a much-abused term. To the minds of most laymen it has a rather hazy association with things despotic, oppressive, and mediaeval.
Even when he laid his head under the guillotine, he felt that he was a much-abused man who had received a most unwarrantable treatment at the hands of people whom he had loved to the best of his limited ability. Historical "ifs," as I have often warned you, are never of any value.
The language in which Madame de Verdelin speaks of Theresa in all her letters is the best testimony to character that this much-abused creature has to produce. Ib., 90, 92, etc. Summer of 1763. Burton's Life of Hume, ii. 105. Oct. 2, 1762. The Confessions are not our only authority for this. See Streckeisen, ii. 64; also D'Alembert to Voltaire, Sept. 8, 1762. Voltaire's Corr.
And even those of us, who have got beyond thinking that it is a title of honour belonging only to the aristocracy of Christ's Kingdom, are too apt to mistake what it really does mean. It may be useful to say a word about the Scriptural use and true meaning of that much-abused term.
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