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When it was suggested that fourteen or fifteen hours' work per day could scarcely be called loafing, he replied, "Well, for fifteen years I have worked on an average twenty hours a day." Nothing but a rare devotion to an interesting subject could keep any man so diligently employed.
A shade of envy crept into his thoughts. Loafing was all very well for these fellows, who knew not Mr Vladimir, and had women to fall back upon; whereas he had a woman to provide for— At this point, by a simple association of ideas, Mr Verloc was brought face to face with the necessity of going to bed some time or other that evening. Then why not go now—at once? He sighed.
The lively young darky came up again with, "Car' yer baggage aboard, boss?" It was sickening. "What's to be done now?" said Charlie, in deepest dejection, as he sat on the pile of baggage that now looked so useless and needless. "I just believe some of the scamps I saw loafing around there in that store stole the money out of the letter.
Have you practised that March?" asked Ed, turning to a gayer subject, for he had his little troubles, but always looked on the bright side of things. "Skating is so good, I don't get much time. Come early, and we'll have a turn at it." "I will. Must run home now." "Pretty cold loafing here." "Mail is in by this time."
I had eaten nothing; I had not a cent in my pockets and I was walking along the boulevards, loafing, and thinking how I could procure some money. "I had crossed several streets, when a carriage stopped close to me; and I saw a very fine gentleman step out, a cigar in his mouth, a gold chain across his waistcoat, and a flower in his buttonhole. He entered a glove-shop.
What's all this plugging for Forbes mean?" Thompson gave him a sour look over the top of his desk. "Addressin' them remarks to me, 'Rast?" "Yes to you! You've been loafing on your job, old man, and it won't do it won't do at all. You should have put a stop to these things. What right have these girls to interfere in a game like this?" "Oh, shut up, 'Rast." "Thompson!
No matter what your stunt may be, in this the country of the free, you'll find that loafing never pays; cut out the flossy grand stand plays; put in your hardest licks and whacks, and get right down to Old Brass Tacks, and, undismayed by bruise or fall, go right ahead in short, play ball! The modern airs are cheerful, melodious and sweet; we hear them sung and whistled all day upon the street.
Having generated, by means of sundry trite reflections of this nature, an enviable appetite for breakfast, I dress and step out of doors to where, at a pleasant table, I can imbibe some coffee and make my plans for loafing through the day. Hot, these morning hours. Shadeless the streets. The Greeks, the Romans, the Orientals knew better than to build wide roadways in a land of sunshine.
This is very nice, but I do want to know all about the other," said Jill, after a short pause. "Let me see. Oh, I saw Bob at church, and he looked rather blue; so, after Sunday School, I asked what the matter was. He said Jerry bothered him for some money he lent him at different times when they were loafing round together, before we took him up. He wouldn't get any wages for some time.
What would the General think of him now? "I suppose you like housework, then?" "No, sir," came the answer in a low tone. "But father's gone, and there's mother and the boys and there's no work for boys in Wennott unless they turn themselves into girls." "Better turn into a girl than into a tough from loafing on the streets, Pat," said the General heartily, as he rose from his chair.
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