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Helen did so and waited until Festing resumed: "To begin with, I've been a short-sighted, censorious fool about Bob. I'm ashamed to remember that I said he was a shiftless wastrel. The worst is I can't apologize; it wouldn't make things better to tell him what I thought." "That's obvious," said Helen, with a smile. "Still, in a way perhaps, you were not so very wrong.
Through him the two men, the sentimental Cockney fishmonger and the wastrel Cambridge graduate, had become friends. He spent with them all his leisure time. Then one of the silly tragi-comedies of life occurred. McPhail got drunk in the crowded bar of a little public-house in the village. It was the last possible drink together of the draft and their pals.
The fact of his having tasted the joys of victory served to whet his desire. And now he felt he could never be happy till the Cup was his own won outright. At home David might barely enter the room There the trophy stood. "I'll not ha' ye touch ma Cup, ye dirty-fingered, ill-begotten wastrel. Wullie and me won it you'd naught to do wi' it. Go you to James Moore and James Moore's dog."
But th' parson were a steady-gaited sort o' chap, and Jesse were strong o' his side, and all th' women i' the congregation dinned it to 'Liza 'at she were fair fond to take up wi' a wastrel ne'er-do-weel like me, as was scarcelins respectable an' a fighting dog at his heels. It was all very well for her to be doing me good and saving my soul, but she must mind as she didn't do herself harm.
You, too, have turned to my enemies in my last days. You would leave me for a young wastrel who has sung in your ears the song of a male siren. But before I will surrender my fight for the dictates of the conscience God has given me to be my mentor, I will see you go!" "Father!" cried the girl. "You don't know what you're saying." His face had become frenzied and purpled, his hands were shaking.
Its novelty has worn off; its uniforms are no longer impressive; its street services, though they provoke no opposition, do not seem to attract the wastrel and the 'rough' as they did at first.
His grandfather, who had a farm of sixty acres in the beautiful parish of Ballaugh, which lies between Peel and Ramsey, was a wastrel, fond of the amusements and dissipations to be found in Douglas, and alienated his small property, so that, at the age of eighteen, his son, Hall Caine's father, was for a living obliged to apprentice himself to a blacksmith at Ramsey.
After all, the Wastrel was in luck: he was alone. These thoughts, however, came to a broken end. From the window he saw The Tigress faring toward Copeley's! Then somebody was coming? Some political high muckamuck, probably. Still, he was puzzled because McClintock had not spoken. Presently McClintock came in. "General inspection after lunch; drying bins, stores and the young palms south-east.
And I I hesitate to think what I am." "What is a wastrel?" she asked. "That's a new one on me. I don't remember." "Something or someone that can be thrown away as useless. A stray is a pigeon that won't stay with the flock." "That's me," said Carlotta, holding out her firm, smooth arms before her and grinning mischievously. "I won't stay with any flock. Nix for the flocks.
When the soaker's last penny has gone, he will receive from the landlord many a contemptuously good-natured gift pity it is that the lost wastrel cannot be saved before that weariful last penny huddles in the corner of his pocket.
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