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Do you know that it is insufferable egotism in you to suppose a woman is going to love you always looking as slovenly as you can! Think of it! Any good woman on earth will be true to you forever when you do your level best. Some people tell me, "Your doctrine about loving, and wives, and all that, is splendid for the rich, but it won't do for the poor."
There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening half-penny paper as there could be between your negro and your Esquimau.
A phrase which Stella Croyle had used Harry had feared to become "the slovenly soldier" began to take on its meaning. "On the Somme the shame was wiped out. Led by such men as Harry well, you know what happened. Harry Luttrell came home freed at last from an overwhelming obsession. He looked about him with different eyes, and there you were!
His haggard was slovenly in the extreme, and his farmyard exceedingly offensive to most of the senses; everything lay about in a careless and neglected manner; wheelbarrows without their trundles sacks for days under the rain that fell from the eaves of the houses other implements embedded in mud car-houses tumbling down the pump without a handle the garden-gate open, and the pigs hard at work destroying the vegetables, and rooting up the garden in all directions.
Extravagance is a serious foe to efficient organisation, because where it prevails there is a temptation to try imperfectly thought-out experiments, in the belief that, if they fail, there will still be plenty of money to permit others to be tried. This, of course, encourages slovenly want of system, which is destructive of good organisation.
Unfortunately, the Russian naturalists whose special duty it has been to make known the natural history of the countries lying around the North Pacific have done their work in a slovenly and childlike manner. Bruin by Captain Mayne Reid The bear of Kamschatka had to be skinned next.
His reflections were interrupted by the appearance of a slovenly maid-servant, with a cotton handkerchief tied round her head, and an uncleaned sauce-pan in her hand. "Eh, Maister Bishopriggs," cried the girl, "here's a braw young leddy speerin' for ye by yer ain name at the door." "A leddy?" repeated Bishopriggs, with a look of virtuous disgust.
The sledges were uniformly packed.... One shudders now to think of the slovenly manner in which we conducted things last autumn; at any rate here is a first result of the care and attention of the winter.
In this happy confidence he stacks his hay in small cocks in the field where it grows, and only carries it away at his leisure. His manner of carrying is as slovenly as all his other management. Annette carries an apron-full, Jeannette an handkerchief-full, and Lubin a barrow-full. Some of it is packed in sheets and blankets.
Their compositions have not that condensation of thought, or that elaborate finish, which the consciousness of writing for the scholar and the man of taste is calculated to give; nor have their dirty blue paper and slovenly types* the polished elegance that fits a volume for the hand or the eye of the fastidious epicure in literary enjoyment.
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