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Wedding breakfasts and receptions are all "much of a muchness," as the Mad Hatter said to another Alice, and it was not until the Mercury was speeding north by west to Scarland Towers, "lent to the happy pair for the honeymoon" while Betty took the children to recuperate at the seaside, that Cynthia felt she was really married.
And therefore it is said that a man shall not presume of hope of forgiveness before the time that his heart be peeked in dread and contrite in sorrow; without these two, hope is presumption, and where these two are, hope is done to; and thus after sorrow cometh soon comfort, as David telleth in the psalm that "after the muchness of my sorrow in my heart," he saith to our Lord, "Thy comforts have gladded my soul."
They're much of a muchness with ourselves bad and good; a little of all sorts; the same flesh and blood as we are. Aren't they, Elizabeth?" "I suppose so." "And there's another thing I mean to do. I mean to try and be good like you. Many a night, when I've lain on that straw, and thought I was dying, I've remembered you and all the things you used to say to me.
Come, nonsense, these foreign fellows don't pretend to have the morals you ascribe to the native flunkey generally without foundation either they are much of a muchness as to that; but your Frenchman or Italian does it more neatly, and is a dozen times better servant than the other is. 'But 'Oh, ay! I know you don't like him. But he knows his manners to you, I hope? said Mr.
You women require pressing just as much as the men, and it's all much of a muchness." "How's that Tom?" "Why, when we make love, and ask you to marry, don't you always pout, and say, `No! You like being kissed, but we must take it by force. So it is with manning a ship.
He, being an energetic man, carried on a long and angry correspondence with the authorities aforesaid; but the old man from Lavington continued to toddle into the village just at eleven o'clock. It was acknowledged that ten was his time; but, as he argued with himself, ten and eleven were pretty much of a muchness. The consequence of this was, that Mary Lowther's letters to Mrs.
"An argument against quiet pools, perhaps, Bunting; but scarcely against quiet people." "Don't know as to that, your honour much of a muchness. I have seen Master Aram, demure as he looks, start, and bite his lip, and change colour, and frown he has an ugly frown, I can tell ye when he thought no one nigh. A man who gets in a passion with himself may be soon out of temper with others.
Francis had preached to the lower forms of life he too became imbued with the spirit of homily and prophecy, though it did not actually find its way into words. "You and I, little brothers" so might we loosely interpret the meditations of his heart "you and I are much of a muchness, and can sing our 'Te Deum' or our 'Nunc Dimittis' in almost the same words.
If Clara Newell could have seen Tom Peters carrying on with Polly in the passage, she might have felt justified in her prejudice against him. It must be confessed, though, that Everard also carried on with Polly. Alas! it is to be feared that men are much of a muchness where women are concerned; shabby men and smart men, bank managers and journalists, bachelors and semi-detached bachelors.
The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her "Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness. I've heard my mother say Squire Pelton used to take his dogs and a long whip into his wife's room, and flog 'em there to frighten her; and my mother was lady's-maid there at the very time."
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