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It's enough to take the spirit out of a fellow; to wear the flesh off his bones; to afflict him with nervous fever. What an idiot I was to let my lady mother put me here! Better have stuck to those musty old lessons at school, and gone in for a parson! Why can't Jenkins get well, and come back? He's shirking it, that's my belief. And why can't Galloway have Arthur back? He might, if he pressed it!
'And rightly so, said Psmith, earnestly. 'Quite rightly so. Discipline, discipline. That is the cry. There must be no shirking of painful duties. Sentiment must play no part in business. Rossiter, the man, may sympathise, but Rossiter, the Departmental head, must be adamant. Mr Rossiter pondered over this for a moment, then went off on a side-issue.
"Oh, well, of course, having just proposed to her, he must, of course, behave like a gentleman and not like a cad. But she can't possibly hold him to it. You will write to her, mamma and so shall I." "We shall make him, I fear, very angry." "Oliver? Well, there are moments in every family when it is no use shirking.
As I understood it, my business was to go to school, to learn everything there was to know, to write poetry, become famous, and make the family rich. Surely it was not shirking to lay out such a programme for myself. I had boundless faith in my future. I was certainly going to be a great poet; I was certainly going to take care of the family. Thus mused I, in my arrogance. And my family?
"Having made up your mind to do something disagreeable, do you find shirking till the last moment makes it any easier any more palatable? Surely the sooner it's over " "It never will be over," she broke in passionately. "It is for all my life! Ah, what am I saying? Mr. Wingarde" she turned towards him, her face quivering painfully "be patient with me! I have given my promise."
The white figure turned short, facing the clerk, and said he 'See you, Mr. Irons, I'm serious there must be no shirking. If you undertake, you must go through; and, hark! in your ear you shall have five hundred pounds. I put no constraint say yes or no if you don't like you needn't. Justice, I think, will be done even without your help. But till he's quiet you understand nothing sure.
To tell you the truth, Jed, I didn't feel no, I don't feel yet any too forgiving or kindly toward that chap who had me put in prison. I'm not shirking blame; I was a fool and a scamp and all that; but he is he's a hard man, Jed." Jed nodded. "Seems to me Ru your sister said he was a consider'ble of a professer," he observed. "Professor? Why no, he was a bond broker."
It is delightful and instructive to potter among one's plants, but it is imperative for body and soul that the pottering should cease for a few months, and that we should be made to realise that grim other side of life. A long hard winter lived through from beginning to end without shirking is one of the most salutary experiences in the world.
You can face it or shirk it and I have come across a man or two who could wink at their familiar shades. Obviously Jim was not of the winking sort; but what I could never make up my mind about was whether his line of conduct amounted to shirking his ghost or to facing him out.
Then 1610-11 he returned to Stratford and settled down for good and all, and busied himself in lending money, trading in tithes, trading in land and houses; shirking a debt of forty-one shillings, borrowed by his wife during his long desertion of his family; suing debtors for shillings and coppers; being sued himself for shillings and coppers; and acting as confederate to a neighbor who tried to rob the town of its rights in a certain common, and did not succeed.
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