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There is no Oubourn; that family has been occupied, and is now, between recovering a little of his Grace's sight, and niggling themselves into Administration. I believe I told you of Crawfurd's preferment in my letter of last Friday sevennight. I shall return to London the end of this week, and go in search of further news for your entertainment.
The clearness of statement, the width of view, the logical form, the firm grasp and profound knowledge which were characteristic of the evidence he gave before the House of Commons Committee in 1766, gave place to a thin and niggling pedantry of style when he turned his pen to the essays and the verses of a man of letters.
"The Wreck of the Medusa" of Géricault is full of earnest, if niggling life. Delacroix has followed his own bent with such independent zeal as has made him the object of intense admiration to some, of bitter hatred to others. But Ary Scheffer has taken his rank at the head of the Spiritualist school, and has awakened a wider love and obtained a fuller appreciation than either of them.
It represents the "Choir of Martyrs," a group of seven figures. In the centre are seated three Deacons in full canonicals, with Bishops on either side, and below two Saints in plain robes. These last have all Signorelli's characteristics of drawing, and sit with wide-spread knees and broadly-painted draperies, a striking contrast to the weak attitudes and niggling robes of the central group.
But his staff-officers, who stood in awe of him, knew that he demanded truth and honesty, and that his brain moved quickly to sure decisions and saw big problems broadly and with understanding. He had good men with him mostly amateurs but with hard business heads and the same hatred of red tape and niggling ways which belonged to their chief.
"The difficulty is to give a signal." "'Tis as easy as lying," I reassured him; and thereupon I began to sing. Sang I: "Such toll we took of his niggling hours That the troops of Time were sent To seise the treasures and fell the towers Of the Castle of Content. "Ei ho!
You talk like a man of power, but model like a cursed niggling prude. You're bitten with the new madness. You're the Bryan of art. 'The dear people' is your cry. Damn the people! They don't know a good thing when they see it. Why consider the millions? Consider the few, those who have the taste and the dollars. That's the way all the big men of the past had to do.
Or if anything has caused you to change your mind to be sorry for what you said, why should I not know it? Even a petty thief may be heard in his own defence. I loved you because I believed you to be a woman, a great, strong, noble, man's woman, above little things, above the little, niggling, contemptible devices of the drawing-room.
The rolling and pitching of a ship of this size, with such tall masts, is quite unlike the little niggling sort of work on a steamer it is the difference between grinding along a bad road in a four-wheeler, and riding well to hounds in a close country on a good hunter.
Business deals are stimulating only in their major aspects. Most of the details are niggling, tedious, routine, and boring and very often bear-trapped. Cochrane had done, with only Babs' help, an amount of mental labor that in the offices of Kursten, Kasten, Hopkins and Fallowe would have been divided among two vice-presidents, six lawyers, and at least twelve account executives.
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