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I never heard such a speech in my life and I am quite sure that they never did either. First he called them a long string of names: cowards, loafers, thieves, vagabonds, good-for-nothings, bullies and what not. Then he said he was still seriously thinking of allowing the parrots to drive them on into the sea, in order that this pleasant land might be rid, once for all, of their worthless carcases.
One of those idle good-for-nothings, drunkards, envious scamps who are found in every community, in the country as well as in the city, cried out, "And why not?" These few words opened at once a door to all kinds of bold guesses. Everybody had heard something about the quarrel between Count Claudieuse and M. de Boiscoran.
"Are the boys gone already?" he asked, almost as he opened his eyes. "No, they are all asleep in a corner," answered the porter. "Asleep!" cried Zorzi, in sudden anxiety. "Wake them, Pasquale, and see whether the sand-glass has been turned and is running, and whether the fire is burning. The young good-for-nothings!" "I will wake them," answered Pasquale.
"Did you not say Sunday, at the 'Femme-sans-Tete', and in the presence of Thiedot, that all the servants of the chateau were idlers and good-for-nothings, and that if you met one of them who tried to annoy you, you would level him with your plane?" "If you used the word 'level, it was very uncivil," observed Rousselet.
"Out of your own pocket?" exclaimed the lawyer, who knew something of bookkeepers' salaries. "Most certainly not out of anybody else's," said Mr. Bingle, with dignity. "And you can also tell them that they are a pack of blamed good-for-nothings," he added, with absolutely no dignity. "My dear sir." "Be sure to tell 'em, will you?
Why you floor the cellar with cement, don't you? Well, the soil of a city is cemented all over, one may say, with certain qualifications of course. A first-rate city house is a regular sanatorium. The only trouble is, that the little good-for-nothings that come of utterly used-up and worn-out stock, and ought to die, can't die, to save their lives.
"Then, Madame Bovary," he said at last, "excuse me, but duty first, you know; I must look after my good-for-nothings. The first communion will soon be upon us, and I fear we shall be behind after all. So after Ascension Day I keep them recta* an extra hour every Wednesday. Poor children!
And in fact the two little good-for-nothings had been for the last hour searching for all the vermin they could find on themselves, and throwing it on us. I had the two little beggars caught, and they got a well-deserved correction. There was a crevasse which was called the "Enfer du Plogoff."
They went away without paying, with the gendarmes after them I hope they were caught and sent to the front, those good-for-nothings." "There are all sorts of Americans," said Andrews in a low voice. He was angry with himself because his heart beat so. "Well, I'm going for a little walk. Au revoir, Madame." "Monsieur is going for a little walk. Amusez-vous bien, Monsieur.
How could it be, that while he, amid fatigues and perils in cold and savage regions, was fighting the Germans and holding in subjection the European provinces, that jeunesse dorée of good-for-nothings, cynics, idlers, poets, which infested the new generation, was conniving with his wife to set against him a child of fourteen? to gain, as it were, sanction from a law that the State would not be safe till by the side of this Claudius should be placed a Cæsar, beardless and inexpert, as if the name of the latter outweighed the genius and experience of the former?
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