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In this speech there was nothing of our slipshod American slovenliness, but a truly Italian conscience and an artistic sense of beauty in the instrument. I saw, before he sat down across his writing-table from me, that he was not far from the medium height; but his erect carriage made the most of his five feet and odd inches.
The Briton in his own insular ports is a very slipshod person with regard to the papers of small craft especially pleasure craft. He looks upon those last with a favourable eye, and watches their going and coming with small concern. The peoples of the Mediterranean are constructed in different fashion.
In the meantime Miss Bessy was flying along the field, throwing up the wet at every step from the long grass. The pins in her shoes at first acted as spurs, pricking her for many steps, and then crooking and giving way; so that she had the comfort of running slipshod the rest of the way. Her shoes, being of stuff, were so thoroughly soaked, in a little time, that they became quite heavy.
Your Son of Man walked from town to town in the hot sun and taught the people, healed the multitude and yet had not where to lay his head to rest. His church has lost His vigor. Your whole scheme hasn't enough action in it. Your organization is too easy and too full of surface observances. It is conducted with slipshod business methods and there is no force in it to help me.
The canoe sidled in to the shore through a threatening shoal of rocky outcrop, and the first stage of the journey was completed. The second stage began after the little craft had been lifted and placed high above the water's level. Scarcely a word was spoken as the various articles were taken out of it, and matters were adjusted. There was nothing slipshod in the arrangements.
Although the old servants were faithful they had grown a little slipshod in their ways, seeing that it mattered little to their employers. Now things had suddenly assumed a swept and garnished air. One felt that the master had come home. They all looked up at me with some expectation when I came in.
At last the steeples rang out three o'clock; there was one close by, so she couldn't be mistaken; and after often looking over her shoulder, and often going a little way, and as often coming back again, lest the all-powerful spies of Mrs Brown should take offence she hurried off, as fast as she could in her slipshod shoes, holding the rabbit-skin tight in her hand.
Then she unburdens herself and begins to speak in fits and starts of this key, of the mishap which twisted it, and of all the multiple details which overlap each other in her head. But the slipshod, gloomy smith's attention is suddenly attracted by the hole which shows the street. "The lubber!" he roars. It is Monsieur Fontan who is passing, the wine-merchant and café-proprietor.
While she was accommodating "the milky mother" with the food which she should have received two hours sooner, a slipshod wench peeped into the stable, and perceiving that a stranger was employed in discharging the task which she, at length, and reluctantly, had quitted her slumbers to perform, ejaculated, "Eh, sirs! the Brownie! the Brownie!" and fled, yelling as if she had seen the devil.
'My dear old chap, writing does matter. You're going crazy on that subject. Of course it matters that a thing should be decently put together. 'It matters much more that it should be well informed. It is, of course, quite possible to be both. 'Oh, quite. That's the idea of the Fact, after all. 'Peacock, I hate all these slipshod fellows you get now. I wish you'd chuck the lot.
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