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Half-done! answered the mouse, 'they are such odd names, they make me very thoughtful. 'You sit at home, said the cat, 'in your dark-grey fur coat and long tail, and are filled with fancies, that's because you do not go out in the daytime. During the cat's absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.
These were the days of help not servants when honest toil was well appreciated by sensible people, and no hurried or half-done work fell from their hands, but the steady doing resulted in answering the daily demands. "It's a bunch of work to do; it is, indeed, Mrs. Minot," said Aunt Hildy. "But we'll master it." "I ain't never going to be driven by work, nor aristocracy neither.
Dickens was ill, and his plot, whatever it may have been, would be irritatingly criticized by Forster before it was fully thought out. "Fules and bairns should not see half-done work," and Dickens may well have felt that Forster should not see work not even begun, but merely simmering in the author's own fancy. Forster does not tell us that Dickens communicated the secret in a letter.
Thus, if we think of how 'one soweth and another reapeth, we may be content to receive half-done works from our fathers, and to hand on unfinished tasks to them that come after us. It is not a great trial of a man's modesty, if he lives near Jesus Christ, to be content to do but a very small bit of the Master's work.
But to come abruptly on a title-page: often-times, in reading deleterious leading articles in wrong-sided newspapers, have I longed to set before the world of faction which indeed has already been half-done, if decently begun be synonymous.
She paused to enjoy the full effect of this mysterious bit of gossip. Judith, whose hair was only half-done, put down her brush and demanded impatiently "What about Catherine?" "Well, you know very well, Judy, that Genevieve has a crush on Catherine.
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