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I questioned several, and for a coin secured an honest-looking idler to guide me. It was not so very far after all to my inn, yet right joyful I was to see the place again and to find a cheerful fire blazing on the hearth. I stood before the homelike warmth and chuckled to myself at the success of my adventure. The host and some crony of his sat at table with their cards and ale.
But could you imagine a man as proud as he, David, taking help from me? He answered rather curtly; said that some day I should see what he was worth; that he was not the idler he seemed. He said that again to me face to face, that once when I have seen him in all the years since the break." Rufus Blight left his chair and stood by the fireplace, a hand on the mantel, his eyes watching the flames.
"Still in the south of France," replied Colville, turning to Barebone in a final way, which had the effect of dismissing this inquisitive idler. While they were at dinner another came. He was a raw-boned Scotchman, who spoke in broken English when the waiter was absent and in perfect French when that servitor hovered near. "I wish I could show my face in Paris," he said, frankly, "but I can't.
"Do you think she's unalterably decided to take McDonald, money and all? He's still an idler. Lend me your car, Aunt Tish. There's a theory there; and who knows?" "He is going to work for six months before she marries him," Tish said. "He seems to like to work, now he has started." She rang the bell and Hannah came to the door.
"Cherry may go with all my heart, for she is idler and more useless than ever, and does naught from morning to night but sit at the window, watching the folks in the street, and turning from red to pale and pale to red as though she were a bride looking for the arrival of her bridegroom. I have no patience with such ways. I knew no good would come of always spoiling the child.
The busy ones are thinking only of making money for themselves, and the idle ones are too enfeebled by luxury to think at all. No, I'm afraid there's no hope for Hull or for Jane either." "I'm not sure about Miss Hastings," said Victor. "You would have been if you'd seen her to-day," replied Selma. "Oh, she was lovely, Victor really wonderful to look at. But so obviously the idler.
What master ever equalled it now? no fault now in those colours, no false tints in that light and shade! See how that flame darts up and soars! that flame is my spirit! Look is it not restless? does it not aspire bravely? why, all its brother flames are grovellers to it! and now, why don't you look! it falters fades droops and ha ha ha! poor idler, the fuel is consumed and it is darkness."
From The Fig and the Idler, an Algerian Legend, and Other Stories, by Alphonse Daudet. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. “Two truffled turkeys, Garrigou?” “Yes, your reverence, two magnificent turkeys, stuffed with truffles. I should know something about it, for I myself helped to fill them. One would have said their skin would crack as they were roasting, it is that stretched....” “Jesu-Maria!
In the doorway of one of the two towers that fronted him across the court stood O'Sullivan Og, whittling a stick and chatting with a sturdy idler in seafaring clothes.
He was a little red-haired, pale-eyed rat of a man, with ferrety eyes and a goatee beard, quiet and peaceable in his ways and inoffensive enough, but a rare hand at gossiping about the beach and the walls you might find him at all odd hours either in these public places or in the door of his shop, talking away with any idler like himself.
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