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Why sit ye all moping by the fireside, like crows round a dead horse, when there is man's work to be done within a few short leagues of ye? Out upon you all, as a set of laggards and hang-backs! By my hilt I believe that the men of England are all in France already, and that what is left behind are in sooth the women dressed up in their paltocks and hosen."
"It's a pity Jim's got such a dull child," Miss Violet would say. "You never would have expected it." "What I like about a child," said Miss Emmy, "is a little cheerfulness and natural spirit not all this moping." Angelina was not, on the whole, popular.... The aunts had very little idea of making a house cheerful for a child.
Don't you see how their legs have turned to roots and grown into the ground, by never taking any exercise, but sapping and moping always in the same place? But here comes the Examiner- of-all-Examiners. So you had better get away, I warn you, or he will examine you and your dog into the bargain, and set him to examine all the other dogs, and you to examine all the other water- babies.
This would have cleared up the mist but spoilt the feeling of wrong-doing. Lady Thistleton was large and recumbent and averse to sight-seeing, but after a heart-to-heart talk with her daughters had seen to it that Damaris had no time for moping.
It was a Saturday, and when the postman called no letter had yet been even written in answer to his uncle's proposition. He was moping about the grounds, with his hands in his pockets, thinking of this, when suddenly Mrs. Fenwick appeared in the path before him. There had been another consultation that morning between herself and her husband, and this visit was the result of it.
When Florinda had gone, Grief said, "Well, what was it?" Wrinkles looked curiously from his drawing-board. Pennoyer lit his pipe and held it at the side of his mouth in the manner of a deliberate man. At last he said, "It was two violets." "You don't say!" ejaculated Wrinkles. "Well, I'm hanged!" cried Grief. "Holding them in his hand and moping over them, eh?" "Yes," responded Pennoyer.
"If you chance on ill-luck," he ran on, arguing aloud with himself concerning the possible consequences of betraying Mr. Hubbard's trust, "you'll be glad you were happy while it was possible; and if the fates make you the one person in a million, by letting you get through life decently, you surely can't think it would be better to spend it moping until you are incapable of enjoying anything."
If you go on in this way you must leave me; I won't have a silly, moping creature before my eyes, to make me lose all patience!" The girl took up the tray and hurried off. Her mistress sat till late in the night, now reading a page of the proofs, now brooding with dark countenance. The polling would take place on the last day of March.
In every gathering he was a welcome guest, and always added to the amusement of the people, instead of dampening their ardor. The Prophet came up while the brethren were moping around and caught first one and then another and shook them up, and said: "Get out of here, and wrestle; jump, run, do anything but mope around; warm yourselves up; this inactivity will not do for soldiers."
"He came over here yesterday and pulled six feathers out of Ginger's tail before I could get in from the barn. The poor bird has been moping ever since. Those children must be a sight of trouble to you folks." "Everything that's worth having is some trouble," said Anne, secretly resolving to forgive Davy's next offence, whatever it might be, since he had avenged her on Ginger. Mr.
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