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Lispeth, who did not relax the activities of The Rainbow League, revived her idea of a Posy Union, persuaded some of the girls to bring little pots of gay crocuses or blue squills to school, and after these had been duly exhibited on a table in the lecture-hall, sent them through the agency of a "Children's Welfare Worker" to brighten the bedsides of various small invalids in the poorer quarters of the town and let them know that spring had arrived.
Squills that my father really did seem to have rendered himself legally liable to these demands, I leaned back in my chair stunned and bewildered. "So you see," said my father, "that as yet we are contending with monsters in the dark, in the dark all monsters look larger and uglier.
"Oh," said I, "you agree with Squills, I suppose, and fancy we are all guided by the bumps on our foreheads?" "And the blood in our veins, and our mothers' milk. We inherit other things besides gout and consumption. So you always do as your father tells you! Good boy!" I was piqued. Why we should be ashamed of being taunted for goodness, I never could understand; but certainly I felt humbled.
The existence of evil has puzzled wiser heads than ours, Squills. But, no doubt, there is One above who has his reasons for it. The combative bump seems as common to the human skull as the philoprogenitive, if it is in our organization, be sure it is not there without cause.
If I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't drink that sour stuff, which the sun itself fills with reptiles, does that prove me a foe to sound sherry? Squills, if you had but received a scholastic education, you would know the wise maxim that saith, 'All things the worst are corruptions from things originally designed as the best. Has not freedom bred anarchy, and religion fanaticism?
"I cannot help that," answered Mr. Squills; "one could not open one's lips, if one were bound to say what nobody else had said. But after all, our superiority is less in our hands than the greatness, of our thumbs." "Albinus, 'De Sceleto, and our own learned William Lawrence, have made a similar remark," again put in my father.
And if I blame Marat calling for blood, or Dominic racking a heretic, am I severe on the religion that canonized Francis de Sales, or the freedom that immortalized Thrasybulus?" Mr. Squills, dreading a catalogue of all the saints in the calendar, and an epitome of Ancient History, exclaimed eagerly, "Enough, sir; I am convinced!"
"Far from it," said Squills, dropping an effervescing powder into a chemical mixture which he had been preparing with great attention, composed of sherry and lemon-juice "far from it. Mr. Tibbets whose organ of combativeness is finely developed, by the by was saying " "That it is a rank sin and shame in the nineteenth century," quoth Uncle Jack, "that a man like my friend Captain Caxton "
If you'll just set up the champagne, Jacky, my boy, we'll be 'Yours for ever, little darling, and we'll gamble on the green of the defunct parson's study table 'till morning doth appear." He took out a new deck of cards as he spoke, and slapped significantly on his overcoat pocket, bulging with packages of cigarettes. "What if Squills should come back unexpectedly?" asked Johnny.
Such a time must come, sooner or later, even though the whole world were spinning cotton and printing sprigged calicoes. We may not see it, Squills, but that young gentleman in the cradle whom you have lately brought into light, may." "And if so," said my uncle, abruptly, speaking for the first time, "if indeed it be for altar and hearth!"
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