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Updated: June 26, 2025
The hedges are hung with wild roses, the scent of the acacia still perfumes the paths; the light down of the poplar seeds floated in the air like a kind of warm, fair-weather snow. I felt myself as gay as a butterfly. On coming in I read the three first books of that poem "Corinne," which I have not seen since I was a youth.
The mate proposed to stand the watch with him, and let Uncle Ned lie down; it would make twelve hours on deck, and probably sixteen, but in this fair-weather sailing, he might safely sleep between his tricks of wheel, leaving orders to be called on any sign of squalls. So far he could trust the men, between whom and himself a close relation had sprung up.
Eight weeks at sea; nine days on shore, is the unvarying routine of the North Sea smacksman's life, summer and winter, all the year round. Two months of toil and exposure of the severest kind, fair-weather or foul, and little more than one week of repose in the bosom of his family varied by visits more or less frequent to the tap-room of the public-house. It is a rugged life to body and soul.
I go in for the much-abused fair-weather, skin-deep, April-shower friends, the friends who will drop off, if let alone, who must be kept awake to be kept at all, who will talk and laugh with you as long as it suits your respective humors and you are prosperous and happy, the blessed butterfly-race who flutter about your June mornings, and when the clouds lower, and the drops patter, and the rains descend, and the winds blow, will spread their gay wings and float gracefully away to sunny southern lands where the skies are yet blue and the breezes violet-scented.
Once, when Pasht was a kitten and his mistress too ill to think about him, he had come from England under Martini's care, tucked away in a basket. Since then, long experience had convinced him that this clumsy human bear was no fair-weather friend. "How snug you look, you two!" said Gemma, coming into the room. "One would think you had settled yourselves for the evening."
They pointed to their pale countenances, and persuaded their followers that they were mere household men, fair-weather troops, who could never stand before them. They did not reflect that, with such men, pride and lofty spirit often more than supply the place of bodily force, and they forgot that their adversaries had the incalculable advantage of justice and law upon their side.
Griffith, it remains for you to speak damn it, man," he whispered, "you are as dumb as a codfish I am sure so fine a woman is worth a little fair-weather talk: you are muter than a four- footed beast even an ass can bray!" "We will hasten our departure, Mr. Barnstable," said Griffith, sighing heavily, and rousing himself, as if from a trance. "These rude sights cannot but appall the ladies.
If ever a man deserved a good wife it's that man, Seth, and what did he get? A Southern woman!" "Those Southern women make good wives," asserted the Professor, "if you give them plenty of servants and money. None better." "Good fair-weather wives," nodded the Post Mistress, "but look out for storms. That's when they desert." "It's a sweeping assertion," mused the Professor, "and not quite fair.
Am I to be only a fair-weather wife to you? to go shares in all your pleasant things, and then when any thing hard or disagreeable comes to be left out. "My darling!" he says, looking most thoroughly concerned, I do not fancy that crying women have formed a large part of his life-experience "you misunderstand me!
Gone like the wild-geese in frosty weather. "Don't you remember how I gave you a bagful of gold?" says Beppo the Foolish. "Won't you remember me now in my time of need?" But the fair-weather friend only laughed in his face. "Don't you remember how I gave you a fine gold chain with a diamond pendant?" says Beppo to another. "And won't you lend me a little money to help me over to-day?"
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