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As there were no sheets or counterpanes to look after, he turned his attention to a heap of dry rubbish in the vestibule, which gave the place an untidy appearance, as seen from the street. To remove this eyesore he had one of my nurses hunt up a wheel-barrow, and two shovels shovels were accessible by this time and ordered him and another to wheel that rubbish out into the street.
At the head of the collections in the palaces of Rome, the Vatican, of course, with its treasures of art, its enormous galleries, and staircases, and suites upon suites of immense chambers, ranks highest and stands foremost. Many most noble statues, and wonderful pictures, are there; nor is it heresy to say that there is a considerable amount of rubbish there, too.
For myself, Sir, I shall not rake among the rubbish of bygone times, to see what I can find, or whether I cannot find something by which I can fix a blot on the escutcheon of any State, any party, or any part of the country. General Washington's administration was steadily and zealously maintained, as we all know, by New England. It was violently opposed elsewhere.
The archdukes too were beginning to doubt whether the bargain were a good one. To give a strong, new, well-fortified city, with the best of harbours, in exchange for a heap of rubbish which had once been Ostend, seemed unthrifty enough. Moreover, they had not got Ostend, while sure to lose Sluys.
It is sad to read of and hear the insensate rubbish that is talked of new earths that are to evolve from war, as though it could be divorced from wounds and death, unspeakable crime, suffering in all its varied forms, and the destruction of property which must always be a direct result. The spectacle of it can never be other, except to the martially-minded, than a shuddering horror.
Mrs. Macdougal has dreamed so much rubbish, and read so much more, that all this humbug has become part of her nature, and one has to be a bit of a humbug one's self and humour her out of kindness In her girlhood there was no escape from the loneliness and stupidity of the Bush but in dreams. 'My manners have been abominable. I shall mind them now.
You mean Lois. Yes, of course she has had a hard time. Who doesn't? But it's rubbish to talk of a 'life's happiness. In the first place, there isn't such a thing nothing lasts so long as a lifetime, I assure you. In the second, Lois has not sustained any real loss not any which I can not make good to her." "Do you imagine yourself so all-sufficient?" she asked.
Yet the biographer dignifies this sorry rubbish with the name of "evidence." Nothing remotely resembling a distinct charge from a named person professing to know is offered among this precious "evidence." "Shelley believed" so and so. Byron's discarded mistress says that Shelley told Mary Godwin so and so, and Mary told her.
'Well! said Cargrim, shirking a true explanation, 'papers likely to reveal his real name and the reason of his haunting Beorminster. 'I don't think there could have been any papers, Mr Cargrim, sir. If there had been, we'd ha' found 'em. The murderer wouldn't have taken rubbish like that. 'But why was the man killed? persisted the chaplain.
As a matter of fact, the tomfoolery does not usually venture upon ground so near home, but it talks rubbish just as monstrous about a poem a few hundred or a few thousand years old, or a great personality a few hundred or a few thousand years old. Now if you will look at that phrase "The Best Modern Criticism" you will see at once that it simply teems with assumption and tautology.
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