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Peppe rose to follow him, but as he reached the door, his natural enemy, the friar ever anxious to thwart him where he could caught him by the nape of the neck, and flung him unceremoniously back into the room. "Have you a toothache too, good-for-naught?" quoth the frate. "Stay you here and help me to wait upon the company."
"I don't know what would become of you, you good-for-naught, if I did!" returned Mammy. Some years later I read "The Children of the Abbey," and this opened a new field of thought. My dreams, instead of being peopled with fairies and genii, were now filled with distressed damsels who met with all sorts of persecutions and Quixotic adventures, and finally ended where they should have commenced.
Nick wondered if his own mother's back would be so bent when she grew old. "Whur be-est going, Nick?" Roger Dawson sat astride a stick of timber in front of Master Geoffrey Thompson's new house, watching Tom Carpenter the carver cut fleur-de-lis and curling traceries upon the front wall beams. He was a tenant-farmer's son, this Roger, and a likely good-for-naught.
I am afraid I seem a very good-for-nothing fellow to you." "Indeed you do not. Don't suppose I would waste time on a good-for-naught. Paz can tell you what attracted me to you can't you, Paz?" "Yes, sir; the Prince Leo's kindness of heart is the secret of his power with us." Leo blushed as he looked up and asked, "How did you know I was soft-hearted?"
Addio, addio, be with God." Then she would have gone and left them crying had not Robaccia, the blowsy wench and good-for-naught, wailed aloud and caught her by the knees. "Mother, mother, mother!" whimpered this hardy rascal, "bless me a little more than the others, a very little more! I am bad eh, God, I am vile, enough! but I will never let thee go save thou kiss me."
"Thou art a fool," said the wood-cutter. "Thou art a lazy good-for-naught to talk so. Come, carry my bundle of sticks and I will give thee food and an old garment." In vain the king protested. The wood-cutter only laughed the more, and at last, losing patience, he beat him and drove him away.
"Stuff and deception! Impudent flirting is what she is fond of, as long as she can get a good-for-naught like you, or an old numskull like that Tippengray, to play her tricks on." Now Lanigan Beam braced himself for action. This sort of thing would not do; whatever she might say or think about the rest of the world, Calthea must not look with disfavor on the Greek scholar. "Numskull!" said he.
But Mistress Lemon was yet to be consulted. Well, ne'er saw I my wife in such a rage. "What!" saith she, "thou hast ta'en it on thyself to offer my bread and meat to a good-for-naught hussy as ne'er had a civil word for any o' us! Thou hast given her bed-room under my roof without so much as 'by your leave! Thou godless hussy, thou! Where be th' jade? I say, where be she? Where be she?"
For what do I pay you, and feed you, and house you, good-for-naught, if you are to fail me whenever I need the things you call your brains? Have you no intelligence, no thought, no imagination? Can you invent no plausible business, no likely rising, no possible disturbances that shall justify my sending Aubran and his men to Montelimar to the very devil, if need be."
When thou wert poring over the crabbed text, and pattering Latin by the ell, dost thou not remember a lack-grace good-for-naught, Robert Hilyard, who was always setting the school in an uproar, and was finally outlawed from that boy-world, as he hath been since from the man's world, for inciting the weak to resist the strong?"
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