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A man who develops a strong will where his desires lead the way will hang back and be a slacker where dissatisfaction is aroused.
As whilome a top flying under the twisted whipcord, which boys busy at their play drive circling wide round an empty hall, runs before the lash and spins in wide gyrations; the witless ungrown band hang wondering over it and admire the whirling boxwood; the strokes lend it life: with pace no slacker is she borne midway through towns and valiant nations.
Here I am, an American, came four thousand miles from Ogden, Utah, just outside of New York, to fight for your King and Country. Don't be a slacker, buck up and get into uniform; come over to the recruiting office and I'll have you enlisted." He yawned and answered, "I don't care if you came forty thousand miles, no one asked you to," and he walked on.
The century went up, and a run later Norris off-drove the slow bowler's successor for three, reaching his fifty by the stroke. 'Must be fairly warm work fielding today, said Reece. 'By Jove! said Gethryn, 'I forgot. I left my white hat in the House. Any of you chaps like to fetch it? There were no offers. Gethryn got up. 'Marriott, you slacker, come over to the House.
It's the awful drag of listlessness, mental and physical, that is the worst after-effect of these marsh fevers; they drain the energy out of you in bucketfuls, and it trickles back again in teaspoonfuls. And just now untiring energy is what I shall need, even more than strength; I don't want to degenerate into a slacker."
The young rakes and libertines avoided him, and there was not a slacker among them who could meet his eye across cafe or billiard room. Yet despite the peculiar species of ignominy and disgrace that Middleville gossips heaped upon Lane's head and the slow, steady decline of his speaking acquaintance with the elite, there were some who always greeted him and spoke if he gave them a chance.
"You're very lazy, Hugh," she said. "I know it," said Hugh Chesyl comfortably. She dropped the pole into the water and drove the punt towards the bank. "It's a pity you're such a slacker," she said. He removed his cigarette momentarily. "You wouldn't like me any better if I weren't," he said. "Indeed I should miles!" "No, you wouldn't." His smile became more pronounced.
"Given his own way, quite irreproachable," said Max "He's not very rich, but he's no slacker. If he doesn't break his neck at polo, he'll get on." "Oh, he's brilliant enough," said Nick. "I suppose he can be trusted to look after her. He's full young." "He'll grow," said Max. A brief silence fell between them. Max continued to smoke imperturbably.
The next type is the partial slacker. He differs from the absolute slacker in that at rare intervals he actually turns up, changed withal into the garb of the game, and thirsting for the fray. At this point begins the time of trouble for the Game-Captain. To begin with, he is forced by stress of ignorance to ask the newcomer his name. This is, of course, an insult of the worst kind.
All the same, the fellow might amuse himself by mild indulgence in romantic sentiment. He was a fool and a slacker, and had now humiliated Helen for the second time. The longer Festing thought about it, the angrier he got, and when he roused himself as the horses plunged down the side of a ravine he was surprised to note how far he had gone.
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