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For the intervening months had not brought the desirable "thrifle more wit" to his unsteady brother Thady, who, on the contrary, was developing into one of those people whose good-for-nothingness is taken as a matter of course even by themselves; and a bolt was thus, so to speak, drawn across Mick's locked door. He set off betimes on his long ramble.
By way of excuse one visitor said she had always understood that the man was very good-for-nothing. But happily there is no better dispeller of mental fog than a friendly conference of those who are in earnest, and it did not take long to convince these conferees that the man's good-for-nothingness was, in part at least, their own fault.
Instead of defending her own position, she fell upon Reuben and his supporter with a rhetoric whereof the moral flavour was positively astounding. Standing with the potato-bowl on one hip and a hand holding the knife on the other, she delivered her views as to David's laziness, temper, and general good-for-nothingness.
"Talk away," I responded rather sullenly, for I expected a long sing-song about my good-for-nothingness in general a subject of which I was heartily tired. "Sybylla, I've been studying the matter over a lot lately. It's no use, we cannot afford to keep you at home. You'll have to get something to do."
Bayweather would certainly say something!" agreed Marise. She stood up. "I'm hypnotized into perfect good-for-nothingness like the rest of you by the loveliness of the afternoon and the niceness of everybody. Here it is almost eating-time and I haven't even opened the baskets. No, don't you move," she commanded the others, beginning to stir from their nirvana to make dutiful offers of help.
She asserts continually her own good-for-nothingness, her uselessness, and incorrigible love to a sweet 'far niente; but nobody is of her opinion in this respect, for nobody can do without her, and one sees that when it is necessary, she can be as decided and as able as any one need be. It is now some time since Gabriele made any charades.
Has not the Irish Celt, he asks, achieved distinguished success in every country of Europe but his own? The state in which he is to be found in Ireland to-day must be, therefore, accounted for on some other theory than the inherent good-for-nothingness of his nature.
Outside one or two carriages hurried past, and the darkness was streaked with quick recurring flashes of lightning. Brigit looked long at Joyselle, and then, irresistibly drawn to him, laid her hand with great gentleness on his head. "You are tired, and the storm has got on your nerves." "No, no! I am not tired. There is for my great good-for-nothingness not that excuse.
"Not of Curzon Street?" "Yes." "And you have quarrelled with her?" "Yes." "Well, but her husband is a general practitioner." "She is a traitress." "But her husband could put a good deal of money in Christopher's way." "I can't help it. She is a traitress." "And you have quarrelled with her about an old wardrobe." "No, for her disloyalty, and her base good-for-nothingness. Oh! oh! oh!"
In the botanical analysis of that then so dazzling, and potent, and compelling instrument in human affairs, a very careful observer might perhaps take notice that the decidedly hurtful and noxious influences in nature appear to have a prominent place; and, for the rest, that the qualities of wildness and idleness, and encroaching good-for-nothingness, appear to be the common and predominating elements.
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