Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 8, 2025
He felt bewildered, and at the same time happy. He who was so alone of a sudden found that he possessed this relative, and it seemed to him almost too good to be true. That the relative had never before noticed his existence, that he was supposed to be a trifler and a ne'er-do-weel, didn't cloud Peter's joy.
'That ne'er-do-weel has school-learning, observed Hor, 'and his bees never die in the winter. 'But haven't you had your children taught to read? Hor was silent a minute. 'Fedya can read. 'And the others? 'The others can't. 'And why? The old man made no answer, and changed the subject. However, sensible as he was, he had many prejudices and crotchets.
During this enforced residence in Shanghai, in which city he had been known some years ago as a pronounced beach-comber and ne'er-do-weel, he was obliged to live practically without funds. However, he was able to borrow on the strength of his indemnity, but to do him justice, he limited his borrowings to the lowest terms, not wishing to encroach upon his capital.
Rab takes a wee drappie too much, it appears, and takes it so often that he has little time to earn an honest penny for his family. This is bad enough; but the fact that Mrs. Phin has been twice wed before, and that in each case she innocently chose a ne'er-do-weel for a mate, makes her a trifle cynical.
The drunken ne'er-do-weel had given Bessie much to put up with. Oh yes! she was to be plagued out of her life by Isaac's belongings, and he wouldn't do a pin's worth for her. Just let him see next time, that was all. Isaac smoked vigorously through it all. But she was hammering on a sore point. "Oh, it's just like yer!" Bessie flung at him at last in desperation.
"Of course I do not count all the dear, foolish boys before that they say in Millerton that the boys attach themselves to me to finish their education but that's all foolishness. I'm so very fond of boys! I could laugh and hug them all! They're so so theatrical! But the man was different; he was fifteen years older than I; and alas! another ne'er-do-weel!
Do what I ask you to, just this once!" Dukovski went down on his knees. "Nicholas Yermolaïyevitch! Be kind! Call me a blackguard, a ne'er-do-weel, if I am mistaken about this woman. You see what an affair it is. What a case it is. A romance! A woman murdering her own husband for love! The fame of it will go all over Russia. They will make you investigator in all important cases.
Yet he remembered how once that life, in King James's time, had seemed the best thing in the world, and how he had chosen to come back from it, to help a helpless middle-aged ne'er-do-weel of a tramp Beale. Well, he had helped Beale. He had done what he set out to do. For Beale's sake he had given up the beautiful life for the sordid life. And Beale was a new man, a man that Dickie had made.
At the top of the room was a chair in which Johnson had sat. The club was a club in which Wilkes had spoken, in a time when even the ne'er-do-weel was virile. But all these things by themselves might be merely archaism. The extraordinary thing was that this hall had all the hubbub, the sincerity, the anger, the oratory of the eighteenth century.
Cucumber wrapped his ragged smock round him, twitched his shoulders, his lips, his beard.... Obviously he felt our presence oppressive and he would have been glad to slink away, ... but the brigadier was again lost in the contemplation of his float.... The 'ne'er-do-weel' coughed twice, sat down on the very edge of the seat, put his hat on his knees, and, tucking his bare legs up under him, he discreetly dropped in his line.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking