church-weathercocks

Updated: May 10, 2025

'How do you reconcile that, with this young lady's being a weak-spirited, improvident idiot, not knowing what was due to herself, flinging up her money to the church-weathercocks, and racing off at a splitting pace for the workhouse? 'I don't understand you. 'Don't you? Or won't you? What else could you have made this young lady out to be, if she had listened to such addresses as yours?

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend