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Kitty Fisher nodded, not at all displeased. 'She'll do, she said. 'I was afraid she was nothing but a milksop, all strawberries and cream. I vow she's handsome! 'Handsome is that handsome does, said Rollo. 'Miss Kitty, will you sit down and take things calmly? offering a chair.
"Those times are past now, dear Athelstane," said his affectionate wife, looking up to the ceiling. "Marry, thou never couldst forgive him the Jewess, Rowena." "The odious hussy! don't mention the name of the unbelieving creature," exclaimed the lady. "Well, well, poor Wil was a good lad a thought melancholy and milksop though. Why, a pint of sack fuddled his poor brains."
"Meanwhile," said Game, who of all the malcontents was the most honest, "what's to become of Willoughby? We must keep some sort of order, whoever is captain." "Why, whatever authority can we have when the most we can do is to report fellows to that milksop?" said Tipper.
"Better a thousand times he should be a milksop than what he, Hunsden, calls 'a fine lad; and moreover she says that if Hunsden were to become a fixture in the neighbourhood, and were not a mere comet, coming and going, no one knows how, when, where, or why, she should be quite uneasy till she had got Victor away to a school at least a hundred miles off; for that with his mutinous maxims and unpractical dogmas, he would ruin a score of children."
The book is indicted upon the Statute of Dulness, and the heroine is charged with being a "low Character," a "Milksop," and a "Fool;" with lack of spirit and fainting too frequently; with dressing her children, cooking and other "servile Offices;" with being too forgiving to her husband; and lastly, as may be expected, with the inconsistency, already amply referred to, of being "a Beauty without a nose."
"Dangerous!" grunted the "deaf and dumb" Spaniard to the vast surprise of the boys. "Milksop!" This voice made the boys gasp and quake. It was Injun Joe's! There was silence for some time. Then Joe said: "What's any more dangerous than that job up yonder but nothing's come of it." "That's different. Away up the river so, and not another house about.
DEVEREUX. Hear, general! It will be all one to you Hark ye, let me exchange with Geraldin. BUTLER. 'Twill be the lesser danger with the duke. DEVEREUX. Danger! The devil! What do you think me, general, 'Tis the duke's eye, and not his sword, I fear. BUTLER. What can his eye do to thee? DEVEREUX. Death and hell! Thou knowest that I'm no milksop, general!
It wouldn't be hard for you to tell when the Croonah was running into a tight place like yesterday. All you have to do is to wire home one word to me. My telegraphic address is 'Simple, London. Say you wire home 'Milksop. We could fix on 'Milksop'; it sounds so innocent!
His project, as he went on to expound, was to withdraw from the round of idle pleasures such as form the chief business of sir Fopling Popinjay and sir Milksop Quidnunc in town and to devote himself to the noblest task for which our bodily organism has been framed. Well, let us hear of it, good my friend, said Mr Dixon. I make no doubt it smacks of wenching. Come, be seated, both.
The severity of his morals contrasted so remarkably with the lax and dissolute manner of the young lords and nobles in the courts which he frequented, that these young springalds would sometimes sneer and call him Monk and Milksop; but his courage in the day of battle was so terrible and admirable, that I promise you the youthful libertines did not sneer THEN; and the most reckless of them often turned pale when they couched their lances to follow Ivanhoe.
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