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She had no one in whom to confide. She was not a girl to have unlimited intimates among other girls at school. She was too self-centred, and, if the truth were told, too emulative. "Maria Edgham thinks she's awful smart," one girl would say to another. They all admitted, even the most carping, that Maria was pretty. "Maria Edgham is pretty enough, and she knows it," said they.
That carping censoriousness which scents out impurity in every bold sally, is, at best, but an ambiguous criterion of purity of morals; and beneath this hypocritical guise there often lurks the consciousness of an impure imagination.
And a delightful reference should not be forgotten to the carping ignorant critic, who has indeed, "had a little Latin inoculated into his tail," but who would have been much the gainer had "the same great quantity of birch been employed in scourging away his ill-nature."
The king awoke, and bade him stay and clean the armour. One day perhaps the criticism would be too carping which inquired how he knew the day from the night he received permission to go, and a bag which he was told contained his reward. When he reached the light of day, he opened the bag and found it filled with oats.
So the name of poetry is odious to them; but neither his cause, nor effects, neither the sum that contains him, nor the particularities descending from him, give any fast handle to their carping dispraise.
The remainder of the Port ebbed in meditation and chance remarks. The bit of storm had done them both good; and Tom especially the cynical, carping, grim old gentleman was much improved by the nearer resemblance of his manner to Andrew's. Behind this unaffected fraternal concord, however, the fact that they were pledged to a race in eccentricity, was present.
Uncle Andy turned, took his pipe from his mouth with marked deliberation, and eyed the Child severely. "What on earth's the matter?" he inquired, after a disapproving pause. "I thought it was trying to bite my nose," explained the Child apologetically. "There's not very much to bite, you know," said Uncle Andy, in a carping mood at having had his reveries disturbed.
The most carping could have found no flaw in the quiet taste of his attire. To sum up, Kirkwood's very good friend and his only one then in London Mr. Brentwick looked and was an English gentleman. "Why?" he persisted, as the younger man hesitated. "I am here to find out. To-night I leave for the Continent. In the meantime ..." "And at midnight I sail for the States," added Kirkwood.
Moreover, if it could loose a fool's tongue to have a king and queen for interpreters, I had them for there were our Harry and Moll catching at every gibe as fast as my brain could hatch it, and rendering it into French as best thy might, carping and quibbling the while underhand at one another's renderings, and the Emperor sitting by in his black velvet, smiling about as much as a felon at the hangman's jests.
But they let the incipient movement of their hearts be arrested by the cold, carping question, 'Is not this Joseph's son? and all the enthusiasm chilled into indifference; 'indignation' followed, and some of those who had almost been drawn to Him, in an hour's time had their hands on His robe, to cast Him from the brow of the hill on which their village was built.
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