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As for the children, his own young people would get at them and learn all about what was going on in a way that no fogey like himself could. In regard to the land question, there were, of course, many sides to that, and he, for one, would not be at all sorry to observe yet another. After all, the Tods were in real contact with the laborers, and that was the great thing.
Jellicoe disappeared through the doorway at the end of the room, "or perhaps I should say, a strange being, for I can hardly think of him as a man. I have never met any other human creature at all like him." "He is certainly a queer old fogey," I agreed. "Yes, but there is something more than that. He is so emotionless, so remote and aloof from all mundane concerns.
I have been a regular and persistent trespasser, but all the same, I have never plucked a rose." "Well, I wish you had!" said Maryllia, feeling somewhat impatient with him for calling himself an 'old fogey, why did he give himself away? she thought, "I wish you had plucked them all and handed them round in baskets to the villagers, especially to the old and sick persons.
'My dear Elfie yes, you are now no protestation what a winning little woman you are, to be so absurdly scrupulous about a mere iota! Really, I never once have thought whether your nineteenth year was the last or the present. And, by George, well I may not; for it would never do for a staid fogey a dozen years older to stand upon such a trifle as that. 'Don't praise me don't praise me!
Well, I'm getting used to it. I'm getting to know my place." "If that was your place, you would soon vacate it." "How can I vacate it?" "When people begin to take me for an old fogey, they'll not have the honour of my company in their houses." "That's very well for you wait till the time comes. And I suppose you like it, anyhow.
I have gained a companion as well as a wife; and marvellously adaptive as young women are, I am conceited enough to think my ideas have travelled beyond the ideas of most girls of eighteen; and I am not conceited enough to suppose the girl of eighteen would not find me an old fogey very much in the way. Let boys mate with girls, say I, and men with women." Lady Mary smiled in spite of herself.
Each year their numbers grow, each year more deep their vague conviction that somehow they've been cheated, more harsh and insistent every year their questioning of all "news from the graveyard," whether it comes from old fogey professors or from parents or preachers, eminent lawyers or business men, great politicians or writers of books. Arrogant and sweeping, sparing nothing sacred young.
Edith Edith's fine, of course, and I've always been glad you two were so congenial but she does exaggerate the importance of the social game. She plays it too hard. I don't want you to marry Sewall. I'm afraid you won't be happy." When Edith came home that night I asked her if she knew how Alec felt. "Of course I do. The dear old fogey! But this is the way I look at it, Ruth.
Morgan was greatly respected and admired, and his reputation for wealth and wisdom got him much renown at most supper-tables: the younger gentlemen voted him stoopid, a feller of no idears, and a fogey, in a word: but not one of them would not say amen to the heartfelt prayer which some of the most serious-minded among the gentlemen uttered, "When I die may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis!"
"I am always lecturing them about it, but they go on growing just the same." "And how they make you feel an old fogey before you know where you are! And I thought I was quite a gay young fellow, upon my word!" "You, my dear Chantrey! why you'd be a gay young fellow at ninety!" said Mr. Fullerton. The Professor laughed and shook his head.
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