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Updated: July 23, 2025
"My, all sermons? they must be dry reading." Uncle Zed heard their conversation, and stepped over to them. "Are you also interested in books?" he asked. "Dorian and I are regular book-worms, you know." Oh, yes, she was interested in books. "But there are books and books, you know," went on Uncle Zed. "You like story books, no doubt.
He wasn't." "Of course he was laughing at you. What did you think he was doing?" "I thought he was interested." "He wasn't, then. Men," Mamma said, "are not interested in little book-worms. He told me it was very bad for you." Shame again. Hot, burning and scalding shame. He was only laughing at her. "Mark doesn't laugh at me," she said.
"Some views of life deduced from your private experience?" he observed; and Algernon cursed at book-worms, who would never take hints, and left him. But when he was by himself, Edward pitched his book upon the floor and sat reflecting. The sweat started on his forehead. He was compelled to look into his black volume and study it.
The book-worms' row, hardly a street, more a short-cut passage between two important thoroughfares, had through the course of many years exercised a subtle fascination for pedant, pedagogue or itinerant litterateur.
"Here we are but book-worms," said Walsingham, "yet from sundry quarters we hear of great practices against this poor crown. The revolt in Scotland is greatly feared, and that out of hand." Scotland, France, Spain, these were dangerous enemies and neighbours to a maiden Queen, who had a rebellious Ireland to deal with on one side the channel, and Alexander of Parma on the other.
Klaproth did not belong to the worthy race of book-worms who shut themselves up in their own studies. He took a wider view of the nature of true knowledge, feeling that the surest way to attain a thorough acquaintance with the languages of Asia and of Oriental manners and customs was to study them on the spot.
They come into Catholic countries, and then there is an end of them! Wherefore should book-worms go forth? They shut themselves up in the diligence and in their chambers, rummage a little in the libraries, but not so much as a pinch of snuff do they do us any good when they return! Those who cost the most generally are of the least use, and bring the country the least honor!
"But he too is odd, we must admit," resumed Louise, "and he had the very same kind of paper we found in the bottle." "And his boat was covered with it," added Grace. "But you really don't think he could be malicious enough to start fires?" asked Julia. "I don't know," replied Grace. "They always say book-worms are queer, and surely he is a book-worm, if there ever was one."
I have often thought that, if some lethal vapor of highly preservative properties such as formaldehyde, for instance could be shed into the atmosphere of this apartment, the entire and complete collection of books and book-worms would be well worth preserving, for the enlightenment of posterity, as a sort of anthropological appendix to the main collection of the Museum.
Authors in all ages address themselves to what interests their readers; the same things do not interest a vast community which interested half a score of monks or book-worms. The literary polls was once an oligarchy, it is now a republic. It is the general brilliancy of the atmosphere which prevents your noticing the size of any particular star.
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