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This puling jargon is not as innocent as it is foolish. In meddling with great affairs, weakness is never innoxious. It is the common doom of man, that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body or the sweat of his mind.
The night thus spent itself very uneasily. They were only learning what should have been known days before. When day broke in the British Legation things had seemed more impossible than ever. Orders and counter-orders came from every side; the place was choked with women, missionaries, puling children, and whole hosts of lamb-faced converts, whose presence in such close proximity was intolerable.
"Rebecca, Rebecca!" cried the old man, "Rebecca, I say, speak to her," and his voice faltered, the accents becoming puling. "Hear her not," said the dame, "she is a deceiver, she is come to get money out of you." "And heaven knows," cried Mr. Salmon, "that she is then coming to gather fruit from a barren tree.
And, beyond even this ... some devilish whim had betrayed him to-night into offering his time for the service and uses of the landlady's daughter in the puling matter of algebra. No ... no! He would not put that in. The girl could not be so selfish as to take advantage of his over-generous impulse.
You'd have a gibbet if you could, wouldn't you? You with your rebellion and your tinpot honours! A puling baby could conspire as well as you. And all the world laughing at you v'la!" "Get out of this room and take your feet from my Manor, Tardif," said the Seigneur with a deadly quietness, "or it will be the worse for you." "Your Manor pish!" The man laughed a hateful laugh. "Your Manor?
"I'd like to know what I'll write the history of if I'm to rot in this God-forsaken place. Caribs? Puling rows between French and English? I'd as well be up on Grange with my mother if it wasn't for you and your books. I want the education of a collegian. I want to study and read everything there is to be studied and read.
It's all right, Miss Linton; and it's better to be a brick of a boy than a weak, puling noodle of a man, isn't it?" "Indeed it is," cried Miss Linton, laughing merrily. "There, I'm your man I mean I'm your boy," cried Bob; "and I'll let you see that I'm a very different fellow to what you think. Now I want to go and see poor old Tom Long. I am sorry he's hurt."
"For shame," cries Lord Kew, shaking away his hand, "be a man, Jack, and have no more of this puling. It's not a baby, that must have its toy, and cries because it can't get it. Spare the poor girl this pain, for her own sake, and balk yourself of the pleasure of bullying and making her unhappy." Belsize started up with looks that were by no means pleasant.
Then DOROTHY puts her hand to her brow as if she is remembering something horrible. DOROTHY. Roger! Now I remember! It is not safe for you to stay! Am I a puling child to be afraid? DOROTHY. My Lord Carey is here. He has read your letter. ROGER. The black-livered dog! Would I had him at my sword's point to teach him manners. DOROTHY. Oh, you are wounded! ROGER. Faugh,'tis but a scratch.
That villain, Clara de Haldimar, was your father. "But wherefore," continued Wacousta, chafing with the recollection, "wherefore do I, like a vain and puling schoolboy, enter into this abasing contrast of personal advantages?
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