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Toole called Sturk a 'horse doctor, and 'the smuggler' in reference to some affair about French brandy, never made quite clear to me, but in which, I believe, Sturk was really not to blame; and Sturk called him 'that drunken little apothecary' for Toole had a boy who compounded, under the rose, his draughts, pills, and powders in the back parlour and sometimes, 'that smutty little ballad singer, or 'that whiskeyfied dog-fancier, Toole. There was no actual quarrel, however; they met freely told one another the news their mutual disagreeabilities were administered guardedly and, on the whole, they hated one another in a neighbourly way.
The doctor found them both on the floor insensible, down with typhus fever, shut up with the pigs and cows, the room and its odour defying description. The neighbours kept strictly aloof. Dr. Croly swept and garnished, made fires, and pulled the patients through. "Sure, you couldn't expect us to go near whin 'twas the faver," said the neighbourly Achilese. Mr.
"Nay," he said at last, "it weer some one smoking. Nobody would hev set fire to the plaace. Why, they might hev been all bont in their beds." Tom Tallington saw them coming and ran out. "Why, Dave," he cried, "I'd forgotten all about the fishing, but we can't go now." "Nay, we couldn't go now," said the man severely. "'Twouldn't be neighbourly."
It was a fair picture, and no eye could rest on a goodlier couple than the tall lithe young man, and the noble maiden. "It was courteous of him to pay us one of the first, nay, the first of his neighbourly visits," said the good parson, exchanging his tie-wig for a comfortable flannel night-cap, when he was once more alone with his daughter.
This was become their evening habit now: the life-long habit which had preceded it, of reading, knitting, and contented chat, or receiving or paying neighbourly calls, was dead and gone and forgotten, ages ago two or three weeks ago; nobody talked now, nobody read, nobody visited the whole village sat at home, sighing, worrying, silent. Trying to guess out that remark. The postman left a letter.
"We are like to be neighbours again," he said, "and I give you my word I shall strive to be a more neighbourly one than in the past." "Then, sirs," said Sir Oliver, looking from Sir John to Lord Henry, "I am to understand that I am no longer a prisoner." "You need not hesitate to return with us to England, Sir Oliver," replied his lordship.
A fine choice of amusements, I vow, cried the jolly doctor. 'There, don't mind me, nor all I say, Toole. I'm, I suppose, in the vapours; but, truly, I'm glad to see you, and I thank you, indeed I do, heartily, for your obliging visit; 'tis very neighbourly. But, hang it, I'm weary of the time the world is a dull place.
She is well-advised to start work early and to be on neighbourly terms with the Osmia when the latter is building; in fact, we shall soon see the terrible dangers to which that same proximity exposes her dilatory rival in resin-work, Anthidium bellicosum. The shell adopted in the great majority of cases is that of the Common Snail, Helix aspersa.
A wagon load of neighbourly young people might go on a day's excursion uncriticised, without thought of dragging a mother or aunt in their wake as chaperon. In fact, though no one is more particular than father in matters of real propriety, I cannot remember being formally chaperoned in my life or of suffering a shadow of annoyance for the lack.
The more I think of that period the more I realise that we have no longer the thing called a mujlis. In our boyhood we beheld the dying rays of that intimate sociability which was characteristic of the last generation. Neighbourly feelings were then so strong that the mujlis was a necessity, and those who could contribute to its amenities were in great request.
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