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Updated: May 19, 2025
A half-holiday means, I suppose, a day on which a schoolboy is only partially holy. It is hard to see at first sight why so human a thing as leisure and larkiness should always have a religious origin. Rationally there appears no reason why we should not sing and give each other presents in honour of anything the birth of Michael Angelo or the opening of Euston Station. But it does not work.
"I have seen larkiness dawn in them for an instant at some recollection, even when they were dying." "I daresay. I can believe it. But Jack was solemn at first, his brow thunderous with thought, as he examined his chair and the rug under his new boots. Then in the firelight I began my task. I wrought to bring about in this Trafalgar Square soul a sea change. For a time I did not attempt to paint.
'The inquiry is delicate, Merton admitted, 'but the fact may be almost taken for granted. In vino veritas. 'I don't know if there is money in it, but there is a kind of larkiness, Logan admitted. 'Yes, I think there will be larks. 'About the dinner?
But, indeed, this Imperial debauch has in it something worse than the mere larkiness which is my present topic; it has an element of real self-flattery and of sin. The Jingo who wants to admire himself is worse than the blackguard who only wants to enjoy himself.
'It might get a man a professorship, said Merton. 'There are so many of us, of them, I mean, said Miss Willoughby, and Merton gave a small sigh. 'Not much larkiness here, he thought, and asked a transient waiter for champagne. Miss Willoughby drank a little of the wine: the colour came into her face. 'By Jove, she's awfully handsome, thought Merton.
May not this breed an irresponsibility of cleverness, a wantonness, an irreverence what is vulgarly termed a "larkiness" on the part of the youthful genius who has, as it were, all his fortune in his pocket?
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