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Father will be very glad to have me there. He wished me to stay longer." "I am wondering whether it is really necessary for you to go back to your drudgery." "Oh, of course it is," she answered quickly. "I mustn't be idle. That's the very worst thing for me. And how am I to live?" "I have still plenty of money," said Hilliard, regarding her. "No more than you will need."
But for such a connexion, nothing could be more idle and ridiculous than to endeavour to do anything; for we might will one thing, and another would take place. But must the same necessary connexion exist between the causes of our volitions and the volitions themselves, before we can be accountable for these volitions, for these effects? This is the question.
"Flower of the forest and of the wild rushing stream," exclaimed Sassacus, in his own language, "be to him as the rock to which the wind whispers an idle tale." "What says he?" inquired the Assistants of one another, not one of whom understood more than here and there a word. "Let the chief keep silent," said Winthrop, addressing Sassacus.
The air seemed ringing with them still; "loved him as you never could have; but he loved you; he told me so, and because of my love for him I hid what I felt. I could have died to make him happy, but you why, you were another man's idle fancy while you lured Theodore Starr to his doom.
If "Rejected Addresses" had not been written half a century before Emerson's poem, one would think these lines were certainly meant to ridicule and parody it. "The song of Braham is an Irish howl; Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything and everything is nought."
In quantity of bloodshed needed, of money, of idle talk and estafettes, not to speak of higher considerations, the saving had been incalculable. For it was England's one Cause of War during the Century we are now upon; and poor England's course, when at last driven into it, went ambiguously circling round the whole Universe, instead of straight to the mark.
"PARIS is a delightful place, that is allowed by all. It is delightful to the young, to the gay, to the idle; to the literary lion, who likes to be petted; to the wiser epicure, who indulges a more justifiable appetite.
But from what I had already seen of Her Majesty the Queen, I was too much interested to lose sight of my object, not, let me be believed, from idle womanish curiosity, but from that real, strong, personal interest which I, in common with all who ever had the honour of being in her presence, felt for that much-injured, most engaging sovereign.
“Ay, lad; but when one sees a Malay pirate, there is no mistaking her for anything else. At night it is generally a stark calm, and whether one is lying idle, with the sails hanging flat against the mast, or whether one is at anchor, one knows that they can’t come upon us under sail, and on a still night one can hear the beat of their oars miles away.
I dressed plain, and was seen at no places of idle diversion. I never went out a-fishing or shooting; a book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work, but that was seldom, was private, and gave no scandal; and to show that I was not above my business I sometimes brought home the paper I purchased at the stores through the streets on a wheelbarrow."
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