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Updated: August 23, 2024
In consikence o' which that la-di-da of an Attendance Officer, that thinks all the maids be after him an' looks sideways into every shop window he passes for a sight of his own image and if it rids us of a fella like that, I'm all for Conscription got me summonsed before the Tregarrick bench an' fined another half-crown, with five shillin' costs.
For one thing Horatio took the announcement of the new engagement very hard, unexpectedly so. Grandma Ridge received it in stony silence with a sarcastic curve to her wrinkled lips, as if to say, "Hope you know your mind this time!" But Horatio spluttered: "What? You don't mean that la-di-da newspaper pup who parts his hair in the middle?"
Rather La-di-da and Brummagem." Val said fixedly: "He's a friend of mine." "Oh! Sorry!" And they sat awkwardly staring past each other, having pitched on their pet points of snobbery. For Jolly was forming himself unconsciously on a set whose motto was: 'We defy you to bore us.
No young man ever learned a great deal when some sentimental old fool footed the bill for his tuition fees in the college of hard knocks." "Poor Matt!" Florry sobbed. "He hasn't had anything except hard knocks since he was fourteen years old." "Yes," shrilled Cappy; "and just look at the difference between him and these la-di-da boys that never had any hard knocks! Hard knocks!
Sally was brimming with gladness, at the topic and the confidence in herself which she saw he was going to express. "The man you marry, Sally he'll have to be a man. Understan' what I mean? None of these fine la-di-da fellows, but a Man. And if he works, you save. Not to scrape, you understand. Just save. For the first five years, be careful. Have your fun. No harm in that. But be careful.
Rather La-di-da and Brummagem." Val said fixedly: "He's a friend of mine." "Oh! Sorry!" And they sat awkwardly staring past each other, having pitched on their pet points of snobbery. For Jolly was forming himself unconsciously on a set whose motto was: 'We defy you to bore us.
Had I been "La-di-da," that impecunious youth about whom we superior folk are so sarcastic, I would have changed my penny for two ha'pennies. I can speak with authority on the subject of being hard up. I have been a provincial actor. If further evidence be required, which I do not think likely, I can add that I have been a "gentleman connected with the press." I have lived on 15 shilling a week.
Those men who went out with a lot of "la-di-da swank" soon found that they were nowhere in the game with the man who cut his drill trousers into shorts went about with his shirt sleeves rolled up and didn't mind getting himself dirty. There were very few "knuts" and they soon got cracked! Shouting and talking was another point in scouting at Suvla Bay.
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