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It was so intimate so painful oh! so painful!" he drew himself together with an involuntary shudder "before this crowd, this eager hostile crowd which was only pining for him to sit down to get out of their way. The men near me began to look at each other and titter. They wondered what he meant by maundering on like that 'damned canting stuff' I heard one man near me call it.

I don't know which of the trio is the warmest one, and we have been fighting over the book, as it is one which, for the first reading at least, I did not like to hear aloud. I am only writing in a vague, maundering, uncritical way, to express sincere sympathy and gratitude, not to exhibit any dissenting powers, if I have any.

Edmonstone, one of the most affectionate people in the world; but his maundering mood making him speak of Charles's illness as if he only regarded it as an additional provocation for himself. 'Charles ill! exclaimed Philip. 'Yes; another, of those formations in the joint.

Before I would be such a fraud as that, I would cut my right hand off. Your life is a continual lie. But go on, I have tried MY best to save you from beggaring yourself by your riotous charities now for the thousandth time I wash my hands of the consequences. A maundering old fool! that's what you are." "And you a blethering old idiot!" roared Givenaught, springing up.

But then he could not abolish himself. There he would be, subject to the remarks of men. "There is he," men would say of him, "who has maundered away his mind in softnesses; who in his life has loved two girls, and has, at last, been thrown over by both of them because he has been no better than a soft maundering idiot."

Hardly-entreated Brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred. Heavens! how the words swing! But it is great nonsense, you know, for you and me Venturists to be maundering like this. Charity benevolence that is all Carlyle is leading up to.

Patrick finished his airy sketch of the Irish case in a key signifying that he might be one among the many, but unobtrusive. 'Stick to horses! observed Mr. Adister. It was pronounced as the termination to sheer maundering. Patrick talked on the uppermost topic for the remainder of their stroll.

He was never among the recipients of honour, while you were still prosperous; your banquetings were too exclusive. Zeus. He was ever a cross-grained censor; we need not mind his maundering, Gods.

What does anything matter to the mass of mankind but a little ease, a little lightening of pressure on this side or on that? Meanwhile the old man went maundering on, talking of the weather, and of his sick child, and 'Mr. Elsmere, with a kind of listless incoherence which hardly demanded an answer, though Langham threw in a word or two here and there.

"Shut up!" said his mates. "Don't carry on like an old woman." He was the next to be lifted on board, merely whimpering now in ineffable agony. After him came the man in the velvet jacket, who was maundering, Doctor Wilhelm, Max Pander, and the other two sailors. Lastly the little corpse of Siegfried Liebling was lifted from the boat.

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