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We have here twenty or thirty starvelings, all with their mouths pressed, as for a kiss, to the body of the plump larva, which, from day to day, fades and shrinks without the least appreciable wound, thus keeping fresh until reduced to a shriveled slough. If I disturb the gluttonous swarm, all, with a sudden recoil, let go, drop off and flounder around the foster mother.
He might flounder, or be completely stalled, as often as he pleased; it was no part of her business to help him. In about three minutes after she had taken her seat by the window, he remarked, with a convulsive smile, "Apples are going to be good, this year." "Are they?" she said. "Yes; do you like 'em? Most girls do."
Beyond, lies a certain Slough of Despond, a concoction of mud and liquid filth, ankle-deep, leg-deep, neck-deep, in a word, of unknown bottom, on which the lamplight does not even glimmer, but which I have occasionally watched, in the gradual growth of its horrors, from morn till nightfall. Should I flounder into its depths, farewell to upper earth!
Indeed, she was very, very ill, and perhaps would have passed away had it not been for a device of Emlyn's. For when she was at her worst and the Flounder, shaking her head and saying that she could do no more, had departed to her eternal ale and a nap, Emlyn crept up and took her mistress's cold hand. "Darling," she said, "hear me," but Cicely did not stir.
Barbie'd be home in a few months and I wanted to be there when she came but I couldn't get over those silkworms. She was goin' to write somethin' about 'em for some kind of a paper, an' it meant a good deal to her, an' I had kept a record of all the projec's she'd written me to do with 'em only to have Cast Steel an' flint fool Bill Andrews flounder in with that herd o' cows.
You cannot be pope; there is only one pope in Christendom, and he cannot make you that. 'Husband, she said, 'I will be pope. Go down quickly; I must be pope to-day. 'No, wife, said the fisherman; 'I can't ask him that. It is not right; it is too much. The flounder cannot make you pope. 'Husband, what nonsense! said his wife. 'If he can make emperor, he can make, pope too.
Things had progressed to the point of his always looking pleased when I took my usual seat beside him when, unfortunately, I one day found it necessary to inform him that, before her death, my mother had besought my father never to allow us to enter for a government scholarship, as well as that I myself considered Crown students, no matter how clever, to be-"well, they are not GENTLEMEN," I concluded, though beginning to flounder a little and grow red.
There were still a few small stores left in the closet, and Katy made a cup of tea for her mother, and with it placed the delicate little flounder by the side of the bed. The invalid had no appetite, but to please Katy she ate a portion of the fish and bread though it was very hard work for her to do so.
"Well, they kept up this tantrum for the space of two or three hundred yards, when they came to a small, low, dismal-lookin' house, when the man gave the door a kick, that sent the latch a flyin' off to the t'other eend of the room, and fell right in on the floor, on his face, as flat as a flounder, a groanin' and a moanin' like any thing, and lookin' as mean as a critter that was sent for, and couldn't come, and as obstinate as a pine stump.
"No," cried the mate excitedly, "it isn't bottom, it's a fish." "Nonsense!" "It is; I can feel him," cried the mate; and he hauled rapidly in, with a heavy fish playing about till, just as it reached the surface and displayed a hideous pair of jaws, it let go, and with a flounder disappeared. "Glad he was not hooked," said the mate, as Mark shrank away. "What a brute!"
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