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The colonies have been inundated with ruined spendthrifts, gamblers, drunkards, idle good-for-nothings, who have been induced to emigrate in the belief that that alone was a panacea for their moral diseases. Very very few of them have reformed or done any good, so that colonists are naturally prejudiced against their class, and look upon gentleman-new-chums with great suspicion.
Their judgment, however, is never in error with regard to some of the neighborhood "rapscallions." Their heads are perfectly level on the question of "those rowdy boys." Their advice is as sound as it is free. They can predict with greater accuracy than can any of the second-sightseers as to the ultimate end of these embryo ladies' men, good-for-nothings, sharpers, spendthrifts, and paupers.
"Could you guess at their number?" "About four thousand thieves, three thousand or more beggars, and four or five hundred assassins." "Well, there are at least eight thousand good-for-nothings; of what religion are they?" Poulain laughed. "Of all, monseigneur; or, rather, of none; gold is their god, and blood their prophet." "Yes; but their politics? Are they Valois, Leaguers, Navarrais, or what?"
"It's the most annoying thing," Dorothy was saying from the bed where she lay, pale and listless, among the pillows. "I've heard of girls being ill from overwork, and I always thought they were good-for-nothings, glad of an excuse to stay in bed for awhile. But I can't get up, Betty. I tried hard this morning before the doctor came, and it made me so sick and faint you can't imagine.
So there was no one to look properly after the orphan, who associated with grooms and gamekeepers, and played with the village boys. Unfortunately the best of these went to work, and it was only the idle good-for-nothings who were available as playmates.
"A bunch of good-for-nothings, too lazy to work, will stir up trouble, and there you are." "Oh, it won't last long," Meyer Nodelman consoled me. "Don't be excited, anyhow. Business does not always go like grease, you know. You must be ready for trouble too." He told me of his own experiences with unions and he drifted into a philosophic view of the matter.
Englishwomen, especially English servants, were lazy good-for-nothings! Poor old Anna; she did not feel happy or placid to-day, and she hated the thought of opening the door to some one who, maybe, would condole with her on to-day's news. All Mrs. Otway's friends knew Anna, and treated her as a highly respected institution. Those who knew a little German were fond of trying it on her.
This time, however, it was not a yell, but a roar. Phil sat up suddenly, rubbing his eyes sleepily. "Get up, you lazy good-for-nothings!" bellowed the car manager, dancing up and down the aisle, still in his pajamas, his hair standing up, his eyes wild and menacing. "Is that all?" muttered Teddy, sinking back into a sound sleep again.
Certainly the actions of the League, headed by a snake dancer and a dentist, would not terrorise the American Congress, President Wilson or me into falling in with all the views of the German Government, and if the German Government was desirous of either the President's friendship or mine why was this gang of good-for-nothings allowed to insult indiscriminately their country, their President and their Ambassador?
I have no news, except that if you will open your mouth you shall see what dates taste like. And he plucked a date, and put it into his father's mouth. 'Ah! You are indeed my son, cried the sultan. 'You do not take after those fools, those good-for-nothings. But, tell me, what did you do with the bird, for it was you, and you only who watched for it?
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