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The wind blows stiffly from the Nor-East, the sea runs high, we ship a deal of water, the night is dark and cold, and the shapeless passengers lie about in melancholy bundles, as if they were sorted out for the laundress; but for my own uncommercial part I cannot pretend that I am much inconvenienced by any of these things.
Indeed, I think it would be difficult to find Eight hundred people together anywhere else, and find so much beauty and so much strength and capacity for work among them. I think so. We sent out about a thousand more, yes'day, from Liverpool. UNCOMMERCIAL. You are not going with these emigrants? MORMON AGENT. No, sir. I remain. UNCOMMERCIAL. But you have been in the Mormon Territory?
"They are a curious sex," said the Angel; "I like them, but they make too much fuss about babies." "Ah! sir, there is the great flaw. The mother instinct so heedless and uncommercial! They seem to love the things just for their own sakes." "Yes," said the Angel, "there's no future in it. Give me a cigar."
UNCOMMERCIAL. It must cost you a great deal of money to go so far, three strong. WILTSHIRE. A power of money. Theer! Eight shillen a week, eight shillen a week, eight shillen a week, put by out of the week's wages for ever so long. UNCOMMERCIAL. I wonder how you did it. See theer now! I wonder how I done it!
In order that when he opened these letters he might have an audience, he had given the society his office address. In these communications he was always addressed as "Dear Compatriot," and never did the words fail to give him a thrill. They seemed to lift him out of Burdett's salesrooms and Broadway, and place him next to things uncommercial, untainted, high, and noble.
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of Dickens's memories rather than of his literary purposes; but it is due to him to say that memory is often more startling in him than prophecy in anybody else. They have the character which belongs to all his vivid incidental writing: that they attach themselves always to some text which is a fact rather than an idea.
UNCOMMERCIAL. Highlanders, for instance? MORMON AGENT. No, not Highlanders. They ain't interested enough in universal brotherhood and peace and good will. UNCOMMERCIAL. The old fighting blood is strong in them? MORMON AGENT. Well, yes. And besides; they've no faith. Faith in ! Well. In anything!
You mightn't think it, but I haive. UNCOMMERCIAL. And a pleasant country too. WILTSHIRE. Ah! 'Tis a pleasant country. UNCOMMERCIAL. Have you any family on board? WILTSHIRE. Two children, boy and gal. I am a widderer, I am, and I'm going out alonger my boy and gal. I'll go and fetch my boy. I'd like to show you my boy.
The door of another oven, or stove, about to be cooled and emptied, was opened from above, for the uncommercial countenance to peer down into. The uncommercial countenance withdrew itself, with expedition and a sense of suffocation, from the dull-glowing heat and the overpowering smell.
The shorthand was a failure; the whole course was a failure. She had not the instinct for plodding, for the meticulous attention to detail that those absurd, irrational lines and hooks and curves demanded. She could not even spell! And an idiot of an instructor had found fault with the large square band she wrote, as being uncommercial. Uncommercial! Of course it was. So was she uncommercial.
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