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Updated: June 11, 2025
If any one does not know the difference between fine things and lovely things, he does not know much, if he has all the science in the world at his finger-ends. One good thing about the parsonage was, that it was aid, and the swallows had loved it for centuries. That way Clare learned to love the swallows and they are worth loving.
His thin black figure straightened itself gallantly, and he wore the look of a younger man. Later that evening, when the guests were gone, after a most cheerful and hospitable occasion, and the company tea things were all put away, Maria was sitting in the kitchen for a few minutes to rest, and Mr. Haydon had taken his own old chair near the stove, and sat there tapping his finger-ends together.
No doubt the writer of the article must have had all history at his finger-ends, as in pointing out the various mistakes made he always spoke of the historical facts which had been misquoted, misdated, or misrepresented, as being familiar in all their bearings to every schoolboy of twelve years old.
No matter, continued the woman; on the morrow would come the barber, a good friend of hers, to dress it for the tomb; he would bring tongs and irons, and other heating-apparatus with him, and, for certain, would make a good job of it, so skilled was he: he had all the latest fashions in hair-dressing at his finger-ends.
But when he produced a specimen page of his manuscript, my confidence, like Bob Acre's courage, oozed out at my finger-ends, or rather, all over me, for I broke out into a cold sweat. The first few lines resembled a confused array of algebraic formula. "This is nothing less than appalling," I almost groaned. "It will take me longer to learn than two or three languages." "Oh, no!
And he held the spill till it had burnt to his finger-ends. Then he extinguished the stove. She said to herself: "He has burned the telegram on purpose. But how cleverly he did it! Ah! That man! There is none but him!" She was disquieted about the telegram. She feared it. Her superstitiousness was awakened. She thought of her apostasy from Catholicism to Protestantism.
He read the Bible every day. He doted on Luther's Catechism. He had the Gospel story at his finger-ends. His aunt Henrietta, who was rather an oddity, prayed with him morning and night. His tutor, Edeling, was an earnest young Pietist from Franke's school at Halle; and the story of Zinzendorf's early days reads like a mediaeval tale.
This was to pick you up and look at you on all sides at once with the eyes in his finger-ends, which tickled you so that you lost your mind. But now, at the shrillest and tensest report of progress from the gifted watcher, all in a wondrous second of realisation, they turned to look into each other's eyes and their ecstasy of terror was gone in the quick little self-conscious laughs they gave.
I was so angry at the mere thought that there and then I charged him with his perfidy. He laughed a short, contemptuous laugh. "And what for no," he answered; "at least I have a trade at my finger-ends. I can drive a plough. I can thresh a mow. At a pinch I can even shoe a horse. But you you have quit even the school-mastering!"
The books were brought from the Council Chambers, when Mr Anderson was found right, and all the East Lothian gentlemen wrong. He is a very well-informed man, and has all the Acts of Parliament at his finger-ends. I was present at a Hallow Fair when a cross toll-bar was erected, and many paid the toll demanded.
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