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I have nothing to complain of, nothing I could wish altered; could I stay." "And does your father approve of your leaving me thus?" Pisistratus. "Yes, fully." "I see, he would send you to the University, make you a book-worm like himself. Pooh! that will not do; you will never become wholly a man of books, it is not in you.
So I often smile when some of my friends call me a book-worm, for if I compare myself with him I am but a shocking idler. Yet am I quite as bad as that, considering the way I am distracted by my public and private duties? Who is there of all those who devote their whole life to literature, who, if compared with him, would not blush for himself as a sleepy-head and a lazy fellow?
We play bridge and we have a supper once a month. You play, of course?" "N-no, I don't." "Really? In St. Paul?" "I've always been such a book-worm." "We'll have to teach you. Bridge is half the fun of life." Juanita had become patronizing, and she glanced disrespectfully at Carol's golden sash, which she had previously admired.
From Taunton Charlie went for one year to be coached for the army at a school at Shooters Hill. From there, when he was not quite sixteen, he passed into the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. As a cadet, Charlie Gordon was no more of a book-worm than he had been as a schoolboy.
But he could not mix freely with them, he did not like their talk or their manners, and he slipped quietly away from their noisy gatherings as soon as he decently could. And so he was left alone; and lonesomeness for a boy of fourteen is a very unpleasant thing. He still did well in his classes, but he was no book-worm.
"Well, my dear Fritz, the only remedy for that lies in that 'book-worm business' as you call it. Sit down on your breeches and work!" "No, Herr von Niebeldingk, it isn't that either ... let me tell you. Day before yesterday I was at the opera.... They sang the Goetterddmmerung.... You know, of course.
This tarnished gold will never brighten, these battered covers will stand no more wear and tear; close them, and leave them to the spider and the book-worm." In the mean time the nebula of the first quarter of the century had condensed into the constellation of the middle of the same period.
One morning at breakfast, therefore, I asked Lord Hilton if I might arrange and catalogue the books during my leisure hours. He replied: "Do anything you like with them, Mr. Campbell, except destroy them." Now I was in my element. I never had been by any means a book-worm; but the very outside of a book had a charm to me.
I think if Mentzelius had been worth his salt, those ears of his, which heard the book-worm crow, might have caught the echo of a sigh from beneath many a pathetic vellum cover. There is something awful to me, of nights, and when I am alone, in thinking of all the souls imprisoned in the ancient books around me.
'Would you rather it had been, Miss Rayner? I asked, laughing. 'I abominate the tribe, as you know, but, as far as I am concerned, this Mr. Stanton may not be much better. Who is he, and what is he? He is an unknown quantity to me! 'He is a Christian and a gentleman, I said warmly 'and one of Hugh's literary friends. 'A dreamy book-worm like Hugh?
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