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My father was a Coffin, and my mother was a Joy; and the two names can count more flukes than all the rest in the island together; though the Worths, and the Gar'ners, and the Swaines, dart better harpoons, and set truer lances, than any men who come from the weather-side of the Atlantic."
For to its possessor is all possession well concealed, and of all treasure-pits one's own is last excavated so causeth the spirit of gravity. Almost in the cradle are we apportioned with heavy words and worths: "good" and "evil" so calleth itself this dowry. For the sake of it we are forgiven for living.
"Be good, sweet maid, And let who will be charming!" Certainly the "Moral Worths" had been at pains to disguise any charm they possessed! Even Darsie herself looked plain with her hair dragged back into a tight little knot, her grey flannel shirt padded into the similitude of stooping shoulders, her skirt turned carefully back to front.
"Fudge, Hannah, I am not talking of the Worths, who of course have no history. I am talking of our family the Brudenells!" "Oh!" said Hannah dryly. "And now do you know who our first ancestor was?" "Yes; some Norman filibuster who came over to England with William the Conqueror, I suppose.
Herbert Spencer says: "If there needs any further evidence of the rude, undeveloped character of our education, we have it in the fact that the comparative worths of the different kinds of knowledge have been as yet scarcely even discussed, much less discussed in a methodic way with definite results.
The appreciation of relative worths, particularly the recognition of the organizing ideas in the treatment of a subject, is a task that requires a high degree of self-reliance. Judging of the soundness and general worth of thoughts is certainly not any easier. Any one can memorize; but to memorize in the proper way requires all the ability just referred to.
You see, madam, young gentlemen will be young gentlemen, for all their mas can say or do; and when the blood is warm and the spirits is high, and the wine is in and the wit is out " "No preaching, I say! Pray, are you a clergyman or a barrister? Tell me at once what reason you have for saying that my son goes to Worths' cottage?"
If there requires further evidence of the rude, undeveloped character of our education, we have it in the fact that the comparative worths of different kinds of knowledge have been as yet scarcely even discussed much less discussed in a methodic way with definite results.
Nothing but the express orders of Fray Ignatius, to remain where she was, prevented her leaving the Worths; for the freedom so suddenly given to Isabel had filled her with indignation. She was longing to be in some house where she could give adequate expression to the diabolical temper she felt it right to indulge. In the afternoon it was some relief to see the confessor coming up the garden.
"The Miss Worths! the weavers! why, what on earth have they to do with what we nave been speaking of?" "Yes, madam; the Miss Worthses is the foxes that Mr. Brudenell is a-huntin' of." "The Miss Worths? My son hunting the Miss Worths! What do you mean, sir? Take care what you say of Mr. Brudenell, Morris."
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