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Some one sitting stiffly on the edge of a chair rose as she entered. To her amazement Marcia perceived a slender woman a lady a complete stranger to her, standing in her own private sitting-room, awaiting her arrival. A woman in rather slipshod artistic dress, with hands clasped theatrically, and tears on her cheeks. "Who are you?" said Marcia, drawing back.
Their slipshod style is neither graceful, nor does it enable them to give their horse any assistance, if he happens to make a mistake; for they are certain to tumble off, if they receive any unusual provocation. The hold the lady has on the crutches should prevent her falling, if the animal stops dead when coming up to a fence.
You see before you, then, this slatternly figure, slipshod, half-clothed, with a sort of shabby demi-gentility about it, half ragamuffin, half clerk; while in strong contrast appeared the new-comer, scrupulously neat, new, with bright black-satin stock, coat cut jauntily to the waist, varnished boots, kid gloves, and trim mustache.
Thawed, it might serve for any amount of useful tunneling; it might go off explosively in the open, at almost any given instant. Taken all in all, it was upon the student fraction of his congregation that Brenton looked with greatest interest; it was to them, in greatest measure, that the best of his sermons preached themselves. The phrase is no slipshod inversion of the fact.
Of the thing called a Radical woman, he could not believe that she was less than monstrous: 'with a nose, he said; and doubtless, horse teeth, hatchet jaws, slatternly in the gown, slipshod, awful. As for a girl, an unmarried, handsome girl, admittedly beautiful, her interjections, echoing a man, were ridiculous, and not a little annoying now and them, for she could be piercingly sarcastic.
I added that it was pretty slipshod business for a going concern, supposing sarcastically now that the Arrowhead was a going concern. Of course, if it were merely a toy for the idle rich She had let me talk, as she will now and then, affecting to be engrossed with her stock. "Look at them white-faced darlings!" she murmured.
Here the postman's knock, loud and sudden, started Mrs. Morton from her seat. She pressed her hands tightly to her heart, as if to still its beating, and went tremulously to the door; thence to the stairs, to anticipate the lumbering step of the slipshod maidservent. "Give it me, Jane; give it me!" "One shilling and eightpence double charged if you please, ma'am! Thank you."
How do you think I can afford to buy you fineries, if you throw them about in that slipshod fashion?" "You may pick it up yourself I won't!" cried Peggy haughtily; but before Arthur had a chance of disputing the point, Eunice had stepped into the breach, and was presenting at once the parasol and her own smiling face for Peggy's greeting.
In critical history the absence of an influence is sometimes as significant as the presence of it. The looseness of Wergeland's style, its frothy abundance, its digressions and parentheses, its slipshod violence, would be to Ibsen so many beacons of warning, to be viewed with horror and alarm.
The others, after looking expectantly at the door for none dared treat Flavia as her brother treated her and after Asgill had said something about waiting for her, fell to also, one by one. Presently the younger of the slipshod footboys let fall a dish fortunately the whole service was of pewter, so no harm was done and was cursed for awkwardness. Where was Darby? He also had vanished.