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I was beginning to call myself several kinds of a fool for letting a girl however wonderful her eyes give me bad half-hours quite so frequently; the thing had never happened to me before, and I had known hundreds of nice girls approximately. When a fellow goes through a co-ed course, and has a dad whom the papers call financier, he gets a speaking-acquaintance with a few girls.
The food he had taken with him the night before had sufficed him and he had quenched his thirst with rain-water from the ditch. Having seen that the squire went back towards the Hall, Goddard slunk away to his hiding-place to wait for the night. He lay down as best he might, and listened for the hours and half-hours as the church clock tolled them out from the lofty tower above.
Some North Atlantic passengers accustomed to real ships made the discovery, and were as pleased about it as American tourists at Stratford-on-Avon. 'Oh, come and see! they cried. 'She has one screw only one screw! Hear her thump! And have you seen their old barn of a saloon? And the officers' library? It's open for two half-hours a day week-days and one on Sundays.
Te-e-a Kettle third and coming fast! "If I gets a shock from that telegraph wire I don't jump any higher. "'Howdy, howdy! He's boilin now, yells ole man Johnson loud enough to bust your ear. "Then that cussed telegraph stops right off. "'Wire trouble at New Orleans, says the operator. "I sure hopes I never spends no more half-hours like I does then waitin' fur the New Awlins message.
They often made an excuse of fetching Professor Marshall home from a committee meeting, and as the faculty committees at that time of year were, for the most part, feverishly occupied with the classification of the annual flood-tide of Freshmen, he was nearly always late, and they were obliged to wait long half-hours in front of the Main Building.
It was in these half-hours of dictation the door open, as a rule, for he did not care for too much privacy that he and Miss Nowak came closest. After months and months, and because he had been busy with the other woman mentioned, of whom she knew nothing, she came to enter sometimes with a sense of suffocation, sometimes of maidenly shame.
If life is going to contain many such half-hours I don't see how I am to get through it with any credit. I left Anne whom at that moment I hated to seek information from the servants, which she did with a valiant disregard of her entire lack of knowledge of Hindustani, a language she stubbornly refused to learn a word of.
I used to enjoy those half-hours, though I am afraid Flurry found them a little wearisome. Our talk went over her head, and she would listen to it with a droll, half-bored expression, and take refuge at last with Flossy. Sometimes, but not often, Miss Lucas would take us to drive with her. I think, until she knew me well, that she liked better to be alone with her own thoughts.
Didn't you see that man that came on the stage all the time and sort of put the whole play through, though you couldn't understand a word he said? Well, that's him! That's Saloonio!" Half-hours with the Poets "I met a little cottage girl, She was eight years old she said, Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head." This is what really happened.
Yet there are many pleasant half-hours to be spent in dipping here and there into the volumes of the Rambler or the Idler. I will give you in the next chapter, as a specimen of Johnson's prose, part of one of the essays from the Idler.
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