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Living in another hut in the vicinity was a very strange character called "Jarge"; his surname has completely escaped me. Jarge was a very old man. Hailing originally from Somersetshire, he had never lost the dialect of his early years. Many an hour have I spent at his saw-pit, listening to recitals of his fifty-year-old adventures, some of which were most unedifying.
Nevertheless we may well suppose that the popular religion of ancient Israel had much to say of superhuman beings other than Yahweh, but that the inspired writers have mostly suppressed references to them as unedifying. Moreover such beings were not strictly angels.
It is also natural that the property-owning classes, who find themselves paying an Income Tax which they regard as extortionate, should consider that the working classes by their continuous demands for higher wages to meet higher cost of living, are trying to exploit the country in their own interests in a time of national crisis, and displaying a most unedifying spirit.
The greater part of his subsequent history is equally unedifying: having made the world his prey, he says that God made the world to that end, and those who have preyed upon their fellows, and enslaved them, and flourished upon it, have declared that to have been the intention of nature. A perpetual pulling down and building up, and the building altogether dependent upon the demolition.
They were desperately in earnest about prayers and determined, though I think unfair ways were adopted, to secure congregations. A concert drew a crowded audience, and it seemed desirable to attach prayers to the last item of the performance so closely that there was no time to escape. I remember scenes, not without an element of comedy in them, but singularly unedifying.
Henry was in fact paying Ferdinand back in his own coin; but the picture is an unedifying one, of craft against craft, working by sordid methods for ends which had very little to do with patriotism and no connexion with justice. If, however, it was now Henry's primary object to isolate Ferdinand so that he could impose his own terms on him, the object was not attained.
"College does civilise a boy," he ejaculates, which is true always providing that it is a good college. He sees a good deal of this poor middle-class in his inspecting tours, and decides elsewhere about the same time that "of all dull, stagnant, unedifying entourages, that of middle-class Dissent is the stupidest."
'My dear sir, he said, 'the date of my question is to-day; that of your answer is temp. Bell. Troj. A friend asking him to come to the temple of Asclepius, there to make prayer for his son, 'Poor deaf Asclepius! he exclaimed; 'can he not hear at this distance? He once saw two philosophers engaged in a very unedifying game of cross questions and crooked answers.
Doubtless somebody received the value when they made a haul, but who, is uncertain perhaps and the stranger was disappointed, anyhow. It may be believed that unedifying scenes arose especially on two or three occasions when an agent had almost reached one of the four gates before he was intercepted.
Miss Bracy was a gentle, pleasing young person, pretty to look at, with her soft olive complexion, and languid pensive eyes, obliging and intelligent; and the change from the dry, authoritative Miss Winter was so delightful, that unedifying contrasts were continually being drawn.
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