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'You're wot I call a bloody windbag, continued Crass; 'you've got a 'ell of a lot to say, but wen it comes to the point you don't know nothin'. 'Why, even 'ere in Mugsborough, chimed in Sawkins who though still lying on the dresser had been awakened by the shouting 'We're overrun with 'em! Nearly all the waiters and the cook at the Grand Hotel where we was working last month is foreigners.
Herr Liebert has christened him "the Professor," and I adopt the name for him, but I fear "Windbag" would fit him better. At 7.30 a heavy tornado comes rolling down upon us.
Lower away in the south a rare thing to come from the south in our climate there lay a black squall-cloud with a rounded outline, like a big windbag, resembling nothing so much as a fat boy's face with its cheeks blown out, when he tries to fill a football with the pressure from his lungs. That was an infallible sign. The first cloud, which was travelling fast, might blow over.
"And comparatively easy," said Aldous, "when you know that neither Socialism nor land-nationalisation will come in your time!" "Oh! so you think him altogether a windbag?" Aldous hesitated and laughed. "I have certainly no reason to suspect him of principles. His conscience as a boy was of pretty elastic stuff." "You may be unfair to him," said Hallin, quickly.
"You have no grip at all to keep your branches in with. They hang quite slack on every side, just as if you were a common beech or birch or oak or whatever the ordinary trees are called." "Do you call me ordinary, you windbag?" said the oak. The poplar did not mind a jot what the oak said, but went on admonishing the willow-tree: "You should take example by the squire's wife," he said.
"Oh, dinna fash ye're heid ower yon windbag," he added, dropping into his broadest Doric and patting his mother on the shoulder. "He disna fash me," said his mother. "Nae fears. But A'll no pairmit him to brak the Sabbath in this hoose, A can tell ye." None the less she opened the door to Mr. Wigglesworth with dignified courtesy. "Guid mornin', Mr. Wigglesworth," she said cordially.
Thus, to-day he would be studying, in the café, a work on algebra; to-morrow, 'Frederick the Great's Cavalry Regulations, and next the remarkable book, 'Cicero proved to be a Pettifogger and a Windbag: in Ten Discourses.
Fenwick, who he designated as one of the smart "windbag tribe, clever, no doubt, and perhaps conscientious, but shallow and perhaps a little conceited." The Squire, who was not clever and not conceited, understood them both, and much preferred his friend the Vicar to his uncle the prebendary.
He turned on his heel, left the room with a positively melodramatic stride, and slammed the door behind him. Olivia was stricken by a sudden panic. She had lost all fear of her husband as far as she herself was concerned. He had become a mere offensive windbag. She did not care whether he did, or did not, try to divorce her. Even on the terms of so great a scandal it would be a cheap deliverance.
He did not share Olivier's feeling of repulsion: he was hardly at all sensible of the absurdities of the language. In his eyes a windbag was as good as any other man. He affected a sort of contempt for eloquence in general. But though he took no particular pains to understand their rhetoric, he did feel the music which came through the man who was speaking and the men who were listening.
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