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Meanwhile, when the family had gathered at the dinner table, Mr. Evringham looked up at his housekeeper. "Where is Jewel?" he asked shortly. "I object to her being unpunctual." "Yes, sir. She is having dinner in her room. She was very naughty and got wet in the brook." "Ah, indeed!" Mr. Evringham frowned and looked down.
Here from time to time on Sunday evenings it was my wont to put in an appearance towards ten or eleven, for the journey was deceptively long from Fitzroy Square, and Nekrovitch, like most Russians, was himself of so unpunctual and irregular a nature, that he seemed to foster the like habits in all his friends.
I informed Wemmick that I was anxious in behalf of Herbert Pocket, and I told him how we had first met, and how we had fought. I glanced at Herbert's home, and at his character, and at his having no means but such as he was dependent on his father for; those, uncertain and unpunctual.
The only way to make an unpunctual person punctual is to convince him that it is rude and unjust to keep other people waiting. There is nothing sacred about punctuality in itself, unless some one else suffers by your being unpunctual. If it comes to that, isn't it quite as good a discipline for punctual people to learn to wait without impatience for the unpunctual?
'If ever I've said anything of the kind, said Jacinth, 'it's only been as a sort of excuse for you; for you know, Frances, you were dreadfully unpunctual and careless in little ways when we first came, though I do think you're getting better. 'Much obliged, said Frances, rather snappishly, for she was a quick-tempered girl. 'It's no thanks to Aunt Alison if I am.
There was a roaring babble of instruction and counter-instruction from police-men, from cab drivers, and from excited porters. Some of the passengers hurried swiftly across the broad asphalt space and disappeared down the stairs toward the underground station. Others waited for unpunctual friends with protesting and frequent examination of their watches.
'You did not wave to them, either? 'No, I said, 'I did wave, but I got tired of it. And it's always they who do it first. You see there's no use doing it except at that place. 'Well, they will be here directly, and then I must give them a little scolding for being so unpunctual, said grandmamma, cheerfully. But that little scolding was never given.
'But you are so unpunctual, he said, having at last made up his mind that he had made a very good thing of Charley, and that probably he might go a little further without much danger. 'I wish to oblige you, Mr.
"I have never known the Prince unpunctual," the Duchess murmured. "I consider him absolutely the best-mannered young man I know." Lady Grace smiled, and glanced at Penelope. "I don't think you'll get Penelope to agree with you, mother," she said. "Why not, my dear?" the Duchess asked. "I heard that you were quite rude to him the other evening. We others all find him so charming."
He also did some of the repairing himself and, smoking a bull-dog pipe the while, which my mother would not allow him to do in the house, he cultivated vegetables in a sketchy, unpunctual and not always successful manner in the unoccupied gardens.
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