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There is the capital blunder, fons et origo. Their leaders now pretend to work upon the Great Scale; they demand everything on the spot upon their own interpretation of equity. Concessions, hazy speeches, and the puling nonsense of our present Government, have encouraged them so far and got us into the mess.
One thing, though, I'll have no puling ways." The boy jumped with pleasure. "Why, I knew all the time I'd get around you," he answered. "I always do when I try; and may I shoot some with your shotgun?" "I'll teach you, perhaps." "When? Shall we start now? Call the dogs together they're nosing in the ditch."
'It's a long time, said Mr. Bumble. 'Very good. I've done it. 'The scene, the workhouse. 'Good! 'And the time, night. 'Yes. 'And the place, the crazy hole, wherever it was, in which miserable drabs brought forth the life and health so often denied to themselves gave birth to puling children for the parish to rear; and hid their shame, rot 'em in the grave!
Why was it that old Liz suddenly ceased her gesticulations, lifted her black brows in unutterable surprise, opened her mouth, and became a listening statue? Did she too recognise tones which recalled other days and the puling cries of infancy? It might have been so.
To be sure it was a part of Schiller's design to represent in Carlos a process of evolution. Under the influence of manly friendship the puling sentimentalist was to have his fiber toughened into the stuff that great men are made of; and so it was quite in order that he should appear at first as a weakling.
Where they had moved to, I failed to find out, but they had vanished! Fourteen months passed, and one bitterly cold day in February at the end of a long row of prisoners, waiting their turn to appear before the magistrate, stood the woman wretched and ill, with a puling bit of mortality in her arms. She was a "day charge," having been arrested for stealing a pot of condensed milk.
And then, all being gone and the long strain over, Pete snatched the puling child out of Nancy's arms, and kissed it and wept over it. "Give her to me, the bogh," he cried, hoarse as a raven, and then sat on the stool before the fire, and rocked the little one and himself together. "If I hadn't something innocent to lay hould of I should be going mad, that I should. Oh, Katherine bogh!
"But " hesitated Mavis, as she glanced at the repulsive face of the woman. "Do either one thing or the other: come right in or keep out. The neighbours do that talk." Mavis walked into the passage, at which the woman sharply closed the door. The puling of the baby was distinctly louder.
I never could help liking him, and I was sorry when he lost his money and they had to sell the Hall." Fletcher choked over his coffee and grew purple in the face. "Hang your puling!" he cried harshly. "I'll not stand it, do you hear? The old man was a beggarly, cheating spendthrift, and the young one is a long sight worse.
It puzzled Sir Hugo that one who made a splendid contrast with all that was sickly and puling should be hampered with ideas which, since they left an accomplished Whig like himself unobstructed, could be no better than spectral illusions; especially as Deronda set himself against authorship a vocation which is understood to turn foolish thinking into funds.
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