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Updated: June 17, 2025
"Seems as though I hadn't any ambition left," she often complained to her daughter. "There's nothin' here to do with, and nobody to do for. The most of the folks we ever see wouldn't know sour-dough bread from salt-risin', and as for dressin' up, I might keep the same clothes on from Fourth July till Christmas your father'd never know." But Ruth Mary was haunted by no fleshpots of the past.
"Ah, mother," he said, with a laugh, "it is not Norman Ogilvie, it is London, that has poisoned my mind. I should never have gone to the South. I am hungering for the fleshpots of Egypt already; and I am afraid some day I will have to come and ask you to let me go away again." He spoke jestingly, and yet he was regarding his mother.
Put up 'A Voice from the Flames, 'A Trumpet-warning to Jericho, and the 'Fleshpots Broken; or, the Converted Cannibal." "And the 'Washerwoman of Finchley Common, Mamma," said Lady Emily. "It is as well to begin soothingly at first." "Stop, my dear ladies," said Pitt, the diplomatist.
All the same, the fleshpots of Pitlochry had by no means put his wife out of his mind. His incurable laziness and procrastination in small things had led him to let slip post after post; but that very morning, at any rate, he had really written her a decent letter. And he was beginning to be anxious to hear from her about the yachting plan.
"But it served to draw me Helen's way. We were engaged when she was seventeen.... Then came the war. And the other night she laughed in my face because I was a wreck.... Mel, it's beyond understanding how things work out. Helen has chosen the fleshpots of Egypt. You have chosen a lonelier and higher path.... And here I am in your little parlor asking you to marry me." "No, no, no!
Gambling had always fascinated him, and he had longed to sit in a game high enough to be really interesting, instead of the quarter-limit affair that he had always played before. And there were women … other women. And he meant to go to New York or Chicago sometime and sample the fleshpots of a really great city.… Life after all was still an interesting thing.
Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou brought us forth to die in the wilderness? 'Whose highest wish on earth was to sit by the fleshpots of Egypt, where they did eat bread to the full. What had transformed that race into a lion, whom none dare rouse up? Plainly, those forty years of freedom.
Messenger boys stealing to put on sixpence. Raffle for large tender turkey. Your Christmas dinner for threepence. Jack Fleming embezzling to gamble then smuggled off to America. Keeps a hotel now. They never come back. Fleshpots of Egypt. He walked cheerfully towards the mosque of the baths. Remind you of a mosque, redbaked bricks, the minarets. College sports today I see.
'Look here, Nevil, Stukely Culbrett checked Beauchamp in season: 'I beg to inquire what Dr. Shrapnel means by "the people." We have in our country the nobles and the squires, and after them, as I understand it, the people: that's to say, the middle-class and the working-class fat and lean. I'm quite with Shrapnel when he lashes the fleshpots.
She confirmed the conjecture, and Hugo then observed: "Well, I'll give him a month to discover that it's his duty to God to remove to a more fashionable neighborhood." "Oh! Do you think so?" "Have you ever known one of these smooth religious fellows who wasn't keen after the fleshpots when his chance came?"
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