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I have remarked elsewhere that country shopkeepers are justly offended by London people, who, coming among them, continue to order all their goods from London. It is caddish to wink and squint at the colour of a man's wine, like a wine taster; and then refuse to drink it.
What did he propose to do? He was not a cad, and the game he was playing struck him rather forcibly as being uncompromisingly near the caddish. Did he, or did he not, mean to make love to the girl he had just left at the Savoy? And if he did, to what end?
"Billy Bluff, of course," replied the other. "Caddish of him, wasn't it?" They went into the parlour. Mrs. Woodburn did not offer the traveller a drink for the simple reason that it never occurred to her to do so. "By Jove! I am late!" cried the young man, glancing at the clock. "There was a break-down at Hayward's Heath."
Jane didn't know what she believed. She didn't believe what Clare had implied that Oliver had tried to kiss her. Because Oliver hadn't been like that; it wasn't the sort of thing he did. Jane thought it caddish of Clare to have tried to make them think that of him.
"Can that worry you?" she asked. "I should have thought, after what you'd already done, such an added trifle wouldn't have made you think twice. To ruin a woman body and soul to lie to her and steal all she's got to give under pretence of marriage that wasn't caddish, I suppose that wasn't anything to make you less pleased with yourself.
I was reading a review the other day of what seemed to me to be a harmless biography enough a little frank and enthusiastic affair, I gathered: and the reviewer wrote in the style of Pecksniff, caddish and priggish at the same time: he called the man to task for botanising on his friend's grave that unfortunate verse of Wordsworth's, you know and he left the impression that the writer had done something indelicate and impious, and all with a consciousness of how high-minded he himself was.
But the recipient of all this favour was caddish enough to ridicule his patron, a kind friend mentioned the fact to Sir Richard, and the knight shut his doors on the ingrate. Let us, likewise, give the fellow his congé. We have seen that Oldfield affected to despise tragedy, and was wont to suggest Mistress Porter as a lady better suited than herself to the purposes of train-bearing.
But perhaps, later on, when my abominable remarks are not quite so fresh in your mind, you won't regard them as quite such an insult as you do now. Dreadful outsider though I am unpardonably caddish though it is to have criticised your war work especially when I have appreciated it so much will you try to remember that it would have been far easier and pleasanter to have done the other thing?"
I did this; and then I rushed excitedly out into the street, to call somebody to see how glorious it was.... They've brought me here for a holiday, and I'm to go back to the studio in two or three days. But they've said that before, and I think it's caddish of fellows not to keep their word and not to return a valuable diary too! So as long as he knows, I don't mind so much.
It promised some brightness, a little fun which is all my excuse, Peggy. I intended naught else. I thought you both would regard it as a great joke. I see now that I should not have done it. It was caddish." "I think Sally felt the worst anent thy saying that the cords hurt pretty bad," Peggy told him. "It seemed like an untruth to her."
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