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As it smashed, he was looking down, wondering, no doubt, in his stupidity, what the pother was about, for I was shouting, and making something of a clatter in my efforts to prevent the catastrophe which I saw was coming. On the instant, as the vapour secreted in the broken pellet gained access to the air, he fell forward on to his face.
But although she refused to vacillate or shuffle to the wooing efforts of the uneasy waters, she progressed not without noise and pother; foamed and fumed mightily at the bow and left behind her a wake, receding almost as far as the eyes might reach.
Although she sensed that something was wrong with somebody somewhere hence these lyrical lamentations she could not, to save her, tell what all the pother was about, for as yet she saw the world couleur de rose.
Chiffinch's on the next morning, he gave me the very news that I wished to hear. "Mr. Mallock," he said, "you are the very man I most wished to see. There is a great pother in France again. I do not know all the ins and outs of the affair; but His Majesty is very anxious. He spoke of you only this morning, Mr. Mallock." My heart quickened a little.
Wealth, my lad, was made to wander, Let it wander as it will; Call the jockey, call the pander, Bid them come and take their fill. When the bonny blade carouses, Pockets full, and spirits high What are acres? what are houses? Only dirt, or wet or dry. Should the guardian friend or mother Tell the woes of wilful waste; Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother, You can hang or drown at last.
"And I may tell him so?" asked Peggy eagerly. "I don't want the poor fellow to have aught to wherrit him. He hath enough as it is." "Yes; thee may tell him, Peggy." Sally slipped from the bed as she spoke and buried her face in the washing bowl. "After all, as thee said, 'tis naught to make such a pother about." "Will thee come home with me to see Harriet, Sally?" "Not to-day, Peggy."
We asked what it all meant, and were told that "she was going to marry the barber;" and then they all tittered, and we could not for the life of us tell what this pother meant.
23 'Hideth his sins, is quoted from the Genevan, or Puritan version. Ed. 24 'Pother; to be, or cause to be, as one involved in dust, in a cloud; to perplex, to puzzle, to confound. Ed. 25 This is an allusion to a custom, nearly obsolete, originating in the feast of tabernacles, of sacrificing to Vacina at the harvest home. The Papists substituted St. Bartholomew for the heathen goddess.
What would become of us without philosophy, without this reasonable contempt of things frivolous, transient and fugitive, about which the greedy and ambitious make such a pother, fancying them to be solid! This is to become wise by stripes, you will tell me; well, if one do become wise, what matters it how?
Why did people hide their natural kindliness as if it were something shameful? Why shouldn't people say what they thought and act as they were inclined? Why all this pother about what one's neighbour thought, when this pother was not energized by any good will? Why was truth avoided as the plague? Why did this young man have one name on the hotel register and another on his lips?
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