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I expect a friend to-night; and observe me, child, do thou trick thyself out handsomely. I would not have him think us poor or sluttish. With these words he left the chamber, and took his way to the room to which we have already had occasion to introduce our readers that in which his pupils worked.
They thrust long thin fingers through shaggy hair and spoke passionate orations nose to nose. Their sluttish women shrieked with mirth and gave their kisses to the leader of the gang, who had the face of Christ as painted by Ary Scheffer. It was in this interesting place, on the very velvet cushions where I used to sit to watch the company, that Jaures was killed on the eve of the war.
And was mightily pleased to see my house clean and in good condition, but something coming into my wife's head, and mine, to be done more about bringing the green bed into our chamber, which is handsomer than the red one, though not of the colour of our hangings, my wife forebore to make herself clean to-day, but continued in a sluttish condition till to-morrow.
So one day, after I'd done my work, and put things straight, for I never was one of your sluttish ones, Master Tom and your uncle, he's always been a kind gentleman to me, and a haffable, like yourself, Master Tom according, I comes upon my Jim at the Sunflower, and I follows him unbeknown for miles and miles right away to the West-End.
At last the crowd streamed out, Mass being over, and I entered and, oh wonder! found myself in a place of all Byzantine splendour: that little chapel, tapestried with crimson silk, lit with hanging lamps, its vaults a marvellous glory of golden infinite tinted golden mosaics with great white angels. A bit of Venice, of S. Mark's in this sluttish Rome. Poets really make places.
Two or three stout fellows from just beneath the pillory elbowed their way to her side and grasped her arms. She struggled and shrieked in affright. Phoebe with indignant face seized the arm of the man nearest her and pulled lustily to free her sister. "Stand aside, you knaves!" she cried, hotly. "Know your betters and keep your greasy hands for the sluttish queans of Southwark streets!"
Pierces, where invited, and there was Knepp and Mrs. Foster and here dined, but a poor, sluttish dinner, as usual, and so I could not be heartily merry at it: here saw her girl's picture, but it is mighty far short of her boy's, and not like her neither; but it makes Hales's picture of her boy appear a good picture.
So Noorna continued slapping Kadza, and cried, 'Is she not sluttish? and where's the point of decency established in her, this Luloo? Shall her like appear before thee and me with loose girdle!
It is enough for me to possess the Isle of Desire the evergreen isle that "sluttish time" has never besmeared with ruin where one may wander whithersoever the mood of the moment wills, or loll in the shade of scented trees, or thread the sunless mazes of the jungle that region of shadow where all the leaves are dumb listening for faint, ineffective sounds, or bask on the sand on clean, unviolated, mica-bespangled sand dreamily gazing over a sea of flashing reflections where fitful zephyrs, soft as the shadows of clouds, alone make blueness visible.
It is so fine that it has been wearing away, and it is not more than one-fourth the size it was when I first put it on, and time is likewise wearing on me, and it will probably last as long as I do, and we will disappear together, as Shakespeare says, "besmeared with sluttish time." It was the brains and statesmanship of Wm.
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