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In cynical self-derision, he pictured himself accompanied by his Indian tribe, knocking at the door of the old red house on Clapton Common and his reception there. He gave a name to his picture, and it was "The Return of the Ne'er-do-well." His brain was getting cloudy; he could not tell whether he was asleep or awake.
Whether Achmet the merchant lived or died was a thing as light as air to me, but at the talk about the treasure my heart turned to it, and I thought of what I might do in the old country with it, and how my folk would stare when they saw their ne'er-do-well coming back with his pockets full of gold moidores. I had, therefore, already made up my mind.
When he laughed in his speech, they laughed; when he was indignant against the Minister, they sat breathless, as the Spaniard sits in the critical moment of the bull-killing. Whichever way he turned himself, he carried them with him. Crowds of Members flocked into the House from libraries and smoking-rooms when it was known that this ne'er-do-well was on his legs.
Innes, who was seated in the stern and filling his position to the limit, acknowledged that for an instant oh, the merest fraction of a second! he had thought the steamer was the Ne'er-do-well, Berlin to Kansas City, but that he had seen his mistake almost instantly!
Every one about here calls him so; but what his real name is God knows! A foolish creature! A regular ne'er-do-well. 'Do they live together? 'No; but there the devil has tied them together, it seems. We approached the platform.
Again, he knew there was a risk of being caught, and it would not sound very well if noised abroad that the son of Squire Haynes had gone out by night and let loose a neighbor's pigs. He cast about in his mind for a confederate, and after awhile settled upon a boy named Dick Bumstead. This Dick had the reputation of being a scape-grace and a ne'er-do-well.
She took no money on Sunday, and this becoming known to her ne'er-do-well neighbours, they made a point of forgetting to come for milk on Saturday. "You must tell your mother I never sell milk on Sunday." "Yes, Miss Hilton." "I'll give you a little to go on with, but next week you must come for it on Saturday."
Smith, that she had seen better days, but had been married to a ne'er-do-well husband, who had drank himself to death within a year of their marriage, and that she was now going out to the colony, probably, so the old lady said who was the informant, in search of a second husband.
The wild boy had come home the scapegoat of many Middleville escapades had returned the ne'er-do-well sought his father's house. He had come home to die. It was there in Blair's white face the dreadful truth. He wore a ribbon on his breast and he leaned on a crutch.
He passed many traders and venders, who had also heard of the boat, and he hastened his steps in his desire to be there early. "Un-di?" "To the barrio," replied Piang. Sicto hurried to keep up with him, but Piang had no wish to be in company with the ne'er-do-well Moro boy, and he did not try to conceal his feelings.
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