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So the King spoke to my Lord Chamberlain; and many such mementos the King do now-a-days meet withall, enough to make an ingenuous man mad. The feast being kept at White Hall, out of design, as it is thought, to make the best countenance we can to the Swede's Embassadors, before their leaving us to go to the treaty abroad, to shew some jollity. We sat at the office all the morning.
Now-a-days he'd have been driving in his automobile killing old women and chickens, or tarpoon fishing down 'n Florida letting the world go rip, or full of neur what do they call it that thing that gets on their nerves and makes crazy old men of them at forty I've forgotten. He didn't. He took up a gun and died like a lion, and he was a middle-aged business man.
Niggers gettin' scarce, dey tells me, now-a-days, in dis world!" "Injins, too, I dinks; dere ist no more redskins might be blenty." The manner in which the Onondago raised his figure, and the look he fastened on my uncle, were both fine and startling. As yet he had said nothing beyond the salutation; but I could see he now intended to speak.
'Don't let us run away as if we were beaten, mamma, said Cynthia. 'Though it may be logic, I, for one, can understand what Mr. Roger Hamley said just now; and I read some of Molly's book; and whether it was deep or not I found it very interesting more so than I should think the "Prisoner of Chillon" now-a-days. I've displaced the Prisoner to make room for Johnnie Gilpin as my favourite poem.
And I don't know a greater piece of impudence and people are wonderfully impudent now-a-days than to think that because a thing only cost fourpence, you need not be at the trouble of keeping it clean and dry, and of sending it back." "Some more toast and water, please," said Chris.
A young fellow can't combine the lives of a man of study and a man of leisure without stealing too many hours from his natural rest. But I talk in vain talk you, Mr. Carnegie," said Christie with earnestness. "A man must work, and work hard, now-a-days, if he means to do or be anything," said Harry defiantly. "It is the pace that kills," said the doctor.
"I never shall forget how b-e-a-utifully she looked as she sat in state on the front parlor sophy, right under a great portrait of her first husband; and on either side of her sat Madam Storer and Madam Williams, elegant to behold, in their stiff silks, rich lace, and stately turbans. We don't see such splendid old ladies now-a-days." "I think we do sometimes," said Polly, slyly.
However, it is not a question of blame or no blame; he had a right to come, and he chose to exercise his right. If, indeed, the invitation had been from persons in prosperity, he might have easily declined; but, I do not see how he was to resist the call of people in distress. "But his speech, that was 'inflammatory. Good God! what is not inflammatory now-a-days?
Thanks be to God I am very well again of my late pain, and to-morrow hope to be out of my pain of dirt and trouble in my house, of which I am now become very weary. One thing I must observe here while I think of it, that I am now become the most negligent man in the world as to matters of news, insomuch that, now-a-days, I neither can tell any, nor ask any of others. 20th.
We have grown wiser than our Lord now-a-days; but, I tell you, it is the same old-fashioned way, and if you want to pour out living waters upon souls, either publicly or privately, you will have to drink largely at the fountain yourself, and have them very ready to let out! If you have not, your talk will be as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal.
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