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Updated: June 1, 2025
It was a favorite speculation with the learned men of the sixteenth century that they had come upon the old age and decrepit second childhood of creation, and while they maundered, the soul of Shakespeare was just coming out of the eternal freshness of Deity, "trailing" such "clouds of glory" as would beggar a Platonic year of sunsets.
When the House separated, the subject under debate was an audacious proposal to postpone Clause 3. There was nothing whatever to be urged in favour of such a proposal; it was pure, unadulterated, shameless obstruction. But Sir Richard Temple is not gifted with a sense of humour, and on this amendment he wandered and maundered away for the better part of an hour.
He always maundered off, interminably, from one thing to another, till his whisky got the best of him and he fell asleep. What the thing was that happened to him and his grandfather's old ram is a dark mystery to this day, for nobody has ever yet found out. Of course there was a large Chinese population in Virginia it is the case with every town and city on the Pacific coast.
"Tha' he is he go'n' a' sprinkle snake-dust in mah boots tha' he is watch out!" He still maundered weakly as I reached the door, but it was not this that detained me at its threshold. It was Miss Caroline, who had actually knelt at his side. At first I thought she wept over one of his blue-black hands, which she clung eagerly to with both her own.
Margret put her hand kindly on the broad, misshapen forehead. "Something is wrong everywhere, Lois," she said, absently. She did not see the slow sigh with which the girl smothered down whatever hope had risen just then, listened half-attentive as the huckster maundered on. "It was th' mill," she said at last.
I shouldn't have told that; but honest, I thought it was an honor. I I just worshiped that pig!" Jase maundered in at that moment, and Marthy, catching up a corner of her dirty apron Billy Louise could not remember ever seeing Marthy in a perfectly clean dress or apron wiped away what traces of emotion her weathered face could reveal.
"She had the whitest hands," maundered the Secretary. "I kissed them once before she died, in Blois, when I was young. Rene was one of your slow poisoners. Smell a rose, draw on a pair of perfumed gloves, drink from a certain cup, and you rang your own knell, though your bier might not receive you for many and many a day, not till the rose was dust, the gloves lost, the cup forgotten."
Indeed, I was impatient to be gone. Even as my friend maundered ahead a squall burst, the jaws of the rain were opened against the coffee-house windows, and at that inclement signal I remembered I was due elsewhere. At the door I was nearly blown back by the unbridled violence of the squall, and Rowley and I must shout our parting words.
He insisted on a certain amount of light, and, leaning on Robert's arm, went feebly round the bookshelves. He took out one of the volumes of the Fathers that Newman had given him. 'When I think of the hours I wasted over this barbarous rubbish, he said, his blanched fingers turning the leaves vindictively, 'and of the other hours I maundered away in services and self-examination!
The flashings below had shattered into many small scintillations as they shot upward, while something sharp and metallic was rattling among his planes. But he was mounting, he knew that. Dizzily, he managed mechanically to turn the plane towards where he knew the broad aerodrome was situated. "Hope they haven't hit my tank," he maundered.
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