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Shorter's brown eyes, which became very wide and serious, too. But all the time it seemed to her that other parts of him were laughing. "Husbands," he declared, "are kill-joys. What have they got to do with a house except to sleep in it? Now I haven't the pleasure of knowing you as well as I hope to one of these days, Mrs. Spence " "Oh, I say!" interrupted Mr. Cuthbert.
He was turning to leave the spot, when a horsey-looking young fellow close to him, in a voice loud enough to be heard by the whole crowd he evidently meant that it should cried: "Well, if it's true that all the long-faced puritans have been carted off, vamoused, kidnapped, "Rapturized," as they call it, and that now there's to be no Theatre Censor, and every one can do as they like, well then, good riddance to the kill-joys, I say."
"I couldn't bear to think of Nollie giving herself hastily, like that; they had only known each other three weeks. It was very hard for me, Leila. And then suddenly he was sent to the front." Resentment welled up in Leila. The kill-Joys! As if life didn't kill joy fast enough!
So spake he, but Antinous rebuked the swineherd, saying: 'Oh notorious swineherd, wherefore, I pray thee, didst thou bring this man to the city? Have we not vagrants enough besides, plaguy beggars, kill-joys of the feast? Cf. i.348. Then didst thou make answer, swineherd Eumaeus: 'Antinous, no fair words are these of thine, noble though thou art.
But then, if you are not in a hurry, why should you care to make haste? The wild desire to be forever racing against old Father Time is one of the kill-joys of modern life. That ancient traveller is sure to beat you in the long run, and as long as you are trying to rival him, he will make your life a burden.
Their life was dreary enough, for they could hold but little comradeship with the invalids, whom they dubbed "greybeards, drivellers, and kill-joys." But they had a guard-room to themselves, where they diced and drank, and told their ruffian stories, and sang their knavish catches, as is the manner, I suppose, for all soldiers to do in all countries, whether in camps or in cities.
Shorter's brown eyes, which became very wide and serious, too. But all the time it seemed to her that other parts of him were laughing. "Husbands," he declared, "are kill-joys. What have they got to do with a house except to sleep in it? Now I haven't the pleasure of knowing you as well as I hope to one of these days, Mrs. Spence " "Oh, I say!" interrupted Mr. Cuthbert.
Families met that day to pray and feast, lovers plighted their troth, gatherings of relatives and friends was the rule, joy was the key-note. Then dissent raised its ugly head, dissent that had its birth in Germany. These kill-joys got the upper hand. The recognition of the Christ-Mass, Christmas and the Michael-Mass, Michaelmas, was put down by law.
There is something incongruous to most people in the idea of a young girl hardly out of the schoolroom bearing a ponderous title. Names like de Chevreuse, or de la Rochefoucauld, seem appropriate only to the warlike amazons of the Fronde, or corpulent kill-joys in powder and court trains of the Mme.
Honest Londoners may sweat and toil with their begrudged fourteen days at the sea or in the country, but Society, caring nothing for unhealthy trades or ill-paid labour, unless a strike perchance affects their pockets or their comforts, drifts to where it can flirt, dance or gamble amid gay surroundings denied in London by our sanctimonious kill-joys.
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