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Updated: May 9, 2025
Therefore settle it in your minds, young men, that the first and the last of all virtues and graces of which God can give is self- control; as necessary for the saint and the sage, lest they become fanatics or pedants, as for the young man in the hey-day of youth and health; but as necessary for the young man as for the saint and the sage, lest, while they become only fanatics and pedants, he become a profligate, and a cumberer of the ground.
"For the women and crocks?" countered Miles bitterly. She smiled at him suddenly. "Yes for the crocks, too." He shook his head. "No, Audrey, I'm an utterly useless person a cumberer of the ground." "Not in my eyes, Miles," she answered quietly.
My school had broken up. The greater part of my pupils were with a successful competitor who now supplied my place. This deepened my gloom; and I often returned with a feeling that my task on earth was accomplished that all that remained for me was to die that I was a cumberer of the earth. I never complained, but bore all in silence.
Peter's with his mother, and watched a pretty girl in the choir. He wished at those times that he could sing. A pleasant cumberer of the earth, he had wrapped his talents in a napkin and buried them by the wayside, and promptly forgotten where they were. He was to find them later on, however, not particularly rusty, and he increased them rather considerably before he got through.
So my supernumerary fellow-boarder, whom I would have dispensed with as a cumberer of the table, has proved a ministering angel to one of the personages whom I most cared for. One would have thought that the most scrupulous person need not have hesitated in asserting an unquestioned legal and equitable claim simply because it had lain a certain number of years in abeyance.
And, for no earthly reason in the world, he began to feel like a cumberer of the earth. Before she had finished the first song, he was thinking that perhaps when he was getting about again, he might run over to France for a few months in the ambulance service. A fellow really ought to do his bit. At just about that point Jane Brown turned and saw him.
She had forgotten that she was not to think of piano-notes now that she had signed the Wicked Compact. She had forgotten everything but her determination to teach Old '61 to play "Marching through Georgia." And Old '61 had, in his turn, forgotten things that he was old, alone, a cumberer, everything but his determination to learn It. It was not a scientific lesson.
He was a cumberer of the ground, and many people besides her husband had thought he had no right to sit in a justice's chair. And then she would burst into tears once more, and declare again that she would never go back. The only thoroughly cheerful soul about the place was the intruding Kittredge.
I will try, by God's mercy, poor helpless creature that I am, to find some means of usefulness, that so I may not be a mere cumberer of the earth, but may repay in any way that may offer itself some little portion of the kindness of my benefactors." The Gilpins had truly been fruitful fig trees. All they undertook prospered.
I've just got to do something for my soul's sake. I went all over the ground, and I saw I was just a cumberer of the earth, and then I thought " She hesitated. "What did you think?" "If, some time or other, I could release a man to go and fight, it would be the next best thing to giving myself. Not here, necessarily; I don't believe we will ever go in. But in England, anywhere."
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