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That early training of hers from Aunt Fanny Warham had made it forever impossible for her in any circumstances to become the typical luxuriously sheltered woman, whether legally or illegally kept the lie-abed woman, the woman who dresses only to go out and show off, the woman who wastes her life in petty, piffling trifles without purpose, without order or system, without morals or personal self-respect.
I had a friend in college who used to indulge in the same sort of piffling, but that my uncle's widow and her elderly companion should delight in such absurdities bewildered me. I had been addressing my aunt as Mrs.
'There's one thing, Dickie said, 'that beastly society. We don't want that swarming all over everything when we get home. We ought to dissolve it before we leave here. The following dialogue now took place: Oswald 'Right you are. I always said it was piffling rot. Dicky 'So did I. Oswald 'Let's call a council. But don't forget we've jolly well got to put our foot down.
"His papers and his policy are piffling," he summed up at last, as they walked down the Avenue, "but I must say I like the man himself he is the first person of distinction I have seen since I left France." "Oh! Oh! The first?" queried Mary. "Darling," he seized her hand and pressed it, "I said the first person, not the first immortal!"
Jebb could not quite "see the lesson," but the fire and power of the rendering gripped the audience. Dr. Carson said, "Now you're doing real stuff! If you'd cut out all your piffling goody talk and give us life like that, you'd have all the town with you."
"Reporting?" A dubious expression clouded the candid cheerfulness of the other's face. "Yes. What's the matter with that?" "Oh; I dunno. It's a piffling sort of job, ain't it?" "Piffling? How do you mean?" "Well, I supposed you had to ask a lot of questions and pry into other people's business and and all that sorta thing."
Our cruising billet is about 150 miles south-west of the Scillys, at the focal point where trade for Liverpool and Bristol and the up-channel trade diverges. Von Weissman says that this is a plum billet and we should do well. I feel this is going to be better than those piffling little mine-laying trips, and though we shall be away ten days, it will qualify me for four days' leave in Belgium.
Melrose folded the newspaper and put it back into his pocket with a short sudden laugh, which startled the man beside him. "Stipulations! I should rather think not! What museum in its senses would accept such piffling stuff with any stipulations attached? As it is, the greater part will go into the lumber-rooms; they'll never show them!
But Stalky puffed out his cheeks and squinted down his nose in the style of Panurge, and all he said was, "Oh, you abject burblers!" "You're three beastly scabs!" was the instant retort of the democracy, and they went out amid execrations. "This is piffling," said McTurk. "Let's get our sallies, and go and shoot bunnies."
The newspaper extract you spoke of was not there, and one of the sheets of the letter was missing. Piffling business, I call it, this interfering with private correspondence. Such was the last letter that Alan Drummond was ever to send to Dorothy Amhurst. SUMMER waned; the evenings became chill, although the sun pretended at noon that its power was undiminished.
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