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'His generosity was for a motive, his avarice was for a motive; one time he was mopish, and nobody was to speak to him; another, he was for being jocular with everybody.... At Athens I saw nothing in him but a well-bred man, like many others: for as for poetry, it is easy enough to write verses; and as for the thoughts, who knows where he got them?
Yet the fellow, who, though a mopish besotted fellow, did not speak like a madman, did swear that he did fire it: and did not this like a madman; for, being tried on purpose, and landed with his keeper at the Tower Wharf, he could carry the keeper to the very house.
They certainly were not those of a woman plunged in inconsolable grief, for she was neither mopish nor artificially gay. As far as I could detect, not even a single sigh escaped her.
Any one would be welcome, for she was feeling a little mopish. No, it was not this surprising, utterly unexpected, War that troubled her. Mrs. Guthrie belonged by birth to the fighting caste; her father had been a soldier in his time, and so had her husband. As for her only son, he had made the Army his profession, and she knew that he had hoped to live and die in it.
Yet the fellow, who, though a mopish besotted fellow, did not speak like a madman, did swear that he did fire it: and did not this like a madman; for, being tried on purpose, and landed with his keeper at the Tower Wharf, he could carry the keeper to the very house.
You were always kind of moody and mopish and you needed work that'd keep you on the jump. Now, why did it make you sick instead of brace you up and make a man of you the way it ought of done? I pinned ole Gurney down to it. I says, 'Look here, ain't it really because he just plain hated it? 'Yes, he says, 'that's it. If he'd enjoyed it, it wouldn't 'a' hurt him.
"Indeed I do, for I know how much better you are." "I am not so much better as to be ever able to forget all that. I know I never shall do so. I have made up my mind about it clearly and with an absolute certainty." "Lily, Lily, Lily! pray do not say so." "But I do say it. And yet I have not been very mopish and melancholy; have I, Bell?
To one accustomed to his apish activity, and to being annoyed by it, there was something plaintive in the fact of having got rid of that trouble. The child was silent, mopish, "good," as his mother said, congratulating herself on the effect of her summary visitation upon the offender.
"'Deed now, did you, Mr. Fenwick? And she wasn't mopish and slatternly like?" "She was tidy enough. You wouldn't wish me to say that she was happy?" "I suppose not, Mr. Fenwick. I shouldn't ought; ought I, now? But, Mr. Fenwick, I'd give my left hand she should be happy and gay once more.
Our childhood was by no means dull or mopish, for there were three of us and we got on very well together, but we mixed hardly at all with children of our own age, our interests were not theirs, and their boisterous ways were somewhat repellent to us. Our father was a great believer in liberty, and, strange to say, he put his ideas into practice in his own household.
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