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Updated: June 19, 2025
"But though each of you croakers speaks the truth, your love for me dims your sight. In fact, all that Rameri has told me, that Bent-Anat writes, that Mena's stud-keeper says of Ani, and that comes through other channels amounts to nothing that need disturb us.
The gutta-percha ring-makers were quite numerous, and it was really astonishing to see the quality of the work turned out, being handsomely engraved and inlaid with silver. There were diversion and amusement for everybody and every class of men, except croakers and grumblers. They had no lot, parcel, or place, and such characters were not permitted to indulge in their evil forebodings.
The grave, silent man, who never spoke save when speech was necessary, was now among them every day, going from room to room with cheerful greetings, encouraging, heartening, raising the drooping spirits, and rebuking sharply the croakers, who foretold with dismal unction a general epidemic.
Miss Herbert had been voted "no chance," because she made no secret of her extravagant tastes in dress and jewels, yet despite society croakers she had won the game. This in itself was interesting, as the millionaire she had secured was known to be particularly close-fisted and parsimonious.
Meanwhile the same young mothers were going to lectures on the Angevins, or reading Goethe or Dante in the evenings a few friends together, gathering at each other's houses; then were discussing politics and social reform; and generally doing their best unconsciously to silence the croakers and misogynists who maintained that when all the girl babies in the perambulators were grown up, and Oxford was flooded with womenkind like all other towns, Oxford would have gone to "Death and damnation."
And ought these parties not to be thankful? Unquestionably they ought. Let the croakers remember the remarkable words of the Tory Lord, Belmore, the planter's friend, and be silent "The resources of this fine island will never be fully developed until slavery ceases."
Sheldon was fain to say something of a consolatory nature. "Come, come," he said, "I won't tease you any more. That's against the laws of hospitality, isn't it? only there are some things which you can't expect a man to forget, you know. However, let bygones be bygones. As for poor old Tom, I daresay he'll live to be a hale, hearty old man, in spite of the croakers.
Shall we advise the Tadpole to get his tail cut off, as a badge of the reptile nature in him, and to achieve the higher sphere of the Croakers at a single hop? Why, it is all he steers by; without it, he would be as helpless as a compass under the flare of Northern Lights; and he no doubt regards it as a mark of blood, the proof of his kinship with the preadamite family of the Saurians.
"The former times were better than these," the croakers sighed, and Governor Bradford wrote of this special case; "In our time his wife was a grave matron, and very modest both in her apparel and all her demeanor, ready to any good works in her place, and helpful to many, especially the poor, and an ornament to his calling.
It is pretty safe to assume that he, even if he did lose his temper at the continual grumbling of the croakers who were sighing for the flesh-pots of Egypt, never ordered a young Israelite boy whose father and mother had been bitten by the fiery serpents and died in the wilderness, to clear out of camp for not putting a halter on one of the cows."
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