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Nothing is ever any good unless it is thwarted with self-distrust though in the main self-confident. Wandering When the inclination is not obvious, the mind meanders, or maunders, as a stream in a flat meadow. Poverty I shun it because I have found it so apt to become contagious; but I fancy my constitution is more seasoned against it now than formerly.
I had resolved to stay, and never more venture country-wards but the accident has ended that." He inquired how many persons the gang numbered now. The 'ruffler, or chief, answered "Five and twenty sturdy budges, bulks, files, clapperdogeons and maunders, counting the dells and doxies and other morts. Most are here, the rest are wandering eastward, along the winter lay. We follow at dawn."
A young and wizened-looking clerk was already at work in the outer room. "I will see no one this morning, Maunders," said Mr. Jarvice as he pressed through. "Very well, sir. There are a good number of letters," replied the clerk. "They must wait," said Mr. Jarvice, and entering his private room he shut the door.
'Be hanged if it's anything remotely resembling a woman; and if you begin to talk like that, I'll hire a red-brick studio with white paint trimmings, and begonias and petunias and blue Hungarias to play among three-and-sixpenny pot-palms, and I'll mount all my pics in aniline-dye plush plasters, and I'll invite every woman who maunders over what her guide-books tell her is Art, and you shall receive 'em, Torp, in a snuff-brown velvet coat with yellow trousers and an orange tie.
Brook; "you've been playing off some of your publican's tricks upon me, Mr. Maunders, pouring the dregs of some stale porter into the bowl, or something of that kind. Don't you do it again. I'm a 'ver goo'-temper' chap, ber th' man tha' takes hic libert' with hic once don't take hic libert' with m' twice. So, don't y' do that 'gen!" This was said with tipsy solemnity; and then Mr.
Maunders," said the groom, in an insinuating tone; "as to askin' a friend to take a cup of tea, or a little bit of supper, without leave from Mrs. Smithson, the housekeeper, is more than my place is worth."
Milsom, who came down to Raynham one November morning, almost immediately after Lady Eversleigh's departure, saw the "Cat and Fiddle" public-house vacant, and went straight to the attorney who had the letting of it, to offer himself as a tenant, announcing himself to the lawyer as Thomas Maunders.
Maunders," began James Harwood, with extreme solemnity, "it is given out that Lady Eversleigh is gone abroad to the Continent wherever that place may be situated and a very nice place I dare say it is, when you get there; and it is likewise given out that Miss Payland have gone with her." "Well, what then?" "I really wish you hadn't such a habit of taking people up short, Mr.
"Yes, sir." "Do you remember what his habits were? Where he lunched, for instance?" Maunders reflected for a moment. "It's a little while ago, sir, since I made the inquiries. As far as I remember, he did not lunch regularly anywhere. But he went to the American Bar of the Criterion restaurant most days for a morning drink about one." "Oh, he did? You made his acquaintance, of course?"
Jones, this gentleman would like something; and I don't mind taking a double dose of Glenlivat with a brother-scholar and a gentleman like myself." So the mawkish creature maunders on until one's gorge rises; but the stolid carters, the idle labourers, the shoemaker from the shop round the corner, admire his eloquence, and enjoy the luxury of pitying a parson and an aristocrat.
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