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On the ship I always thought him rather a head-in-air kind of swell, but he was a splendid fellow, and I pray God that he has lived, as the lady and child for whom he offered himself up have done, for they are both well again." "Yes," she repeated after him mechanically, "splendid fellow indeed, and," she added, with a strange flash of conviction, "I believe that he is still alive.
To interfere would have been the part of the middle-aged old-fashioned mother, and for that part Neville had no liking. To be her children's friend and good comrade, that was her rôle in life. "It's good of you to have her," she said to Barry. "I hope you won't be sorry.... She's very stupid sometimes regular Johnny Head-in-air." "I should be a jolly sight more use," Kay remarked.
Have you heard of any? Tell me." He stooped to her with roguish eagerness. "I like to steal a march on Blanche." So he knew nothing while half their world was talking! It was very characteristic, however. Except for his own hobbies, artistic, medical, or military, Lord Lackington had walked through life as a Johnny Head-in-Air, from his youth till now.
Gaddesden, discreetly, yet not without giving her some significant information; he did whatever small services were possible in the case of a man who went about Canada as a Johnny Head-in-air, with his mind in another hemisphere; and it was understood that he was to leave them at Vancouver.
I was unconquerable! I walked along the corridor, blown out with injured virtue a King among men. We assure you, our beloved subjects, we were Rupert Head-in-Air. I returned to Radley's class-room and entered jauntily. All eyes turned and followed me as I walked to the master's desk. The excitement experienced by each boy seemed communicated to me. Radley feigned indifference. "Well?" said he.
Again, Wordsworth spoke with solemn reprobation of certain of Lamb's friendships, after Lamb was dead, as "the indulgences of social humours and fancies which were often injurious to himself and causes of severe regrets to his friends, without really benefiting the object of his misapplied kindness." Nor was this attitude of Johnny Head-in-Air the mark only of his later years.
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