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Thought about the great questions of life, thought and reasoned direction, this is what the multitude demands mutely and weakly, and what the organised churches are failing to give. They have not the courage of their creeds. Either their creeds are intellectual flummery or they are the solution to the riddles with which the world is struggling. But the churches make no mention of their creeds.
"There's no flummery there that's my meaning, spoke out plain. You two ha' put shame on Will, and cast him into prison, and I want you to take him out again, and lift the shameful lie off him. That's all it ain't much, and it 'ull be the better for your souls ef you have any souls that you should do it." Granger burst into a loud laugh. "You have the cheek!" he said.
Not but what some people are proud of being all head and no heart. There is no flummery about them. It is stern, severe sense and principle. Fancy a mortal hopping through creation, and boasting that he was born with only one leg! Or even if you have a little of the kindly element, but very little when compared with the logical, you have not much to boast of.
Elegant females are very susceptible to these little attentions, as you are aware, and I never hesitate to offer them." "Flummery and females!" interjected the Admiral. "I hope, Sir, it is not your intention to spoil my Lady Sefton's digestion with this sort of whipped cream!" Mr Collins bowed and sidled, and Mrs C. observed:
No, no, let Jessie help you; you shan't have all the carving; I'm sure you are tired; you don't look at all well." "I was crossing all night, you know," said Johnny laughing, "and am as hungry as a hunter, that's all. What a blessing to see a nice clean English potato again without any flummery!" "Ah! I thought so," said his mother; "they didn't know how to feed you.
So like them, he quenched his thirst at the brook. But when, towards noon, he could find nothing to eat, and his inside cavity seemed to enlarge with very emptiness, his hunger grew every minute. Then he thought that a bit of oat cake, a leek, or a bowl of oat meal, whether porridge or flummery, might suit a king.
Next morning when he picked up the newspaper and the daily instalment of a cardinal's tour through Ireland caught his eye, he remembered that Ellen had sent for a theologian.... His eyes went down the columns of the newspaper and he said, "All the old flummery. Ireland's fidelity to her religion, etc., her devotion to Rome, etc., to everything," he said, "except herself.
"What a blitherer you are, Mahommed! Rip it open and let's have it over." The kavass handed him a large letter, pedantically and rhetorically written; and Dimsdale, scarce glancing at it, sleepily said: "Read it out, Mahommed. Skip the flummery in it, if you know how." Two minutes later Dimsdale sat up aghast with a surprise that made his heart thump painfully, made his head go round.
Rondeau saw he had stretched a trifle too much, but he answered, "Well, anyhow, he throwed it away, and I’m goin’ to keep it till—till, you know when, Dilsey." "Keep it till you’re gray," said Aunt Dilsey. "Leffie ain’t goin’ to be married with no such flummery." Here Leffie, anxious to change the conversation, asked, "What of Miss Fanny?"
The last little brown boy I chanced to notice in the crowds and swarms of Colombo had nothing on but a twine string around his waist, but in my memory the frank honesty of his costume still stands out in pleasant contrast with the odious flummery in which the little Sunday-school dowdies were masquerading. Prosperity is the best protector of principle. Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
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