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Updated: August 11, 2024
"I don't like to hear the officers of the Army and Navy scoffed at as a lot of idling, time-wasting dandies," Darry asserted. "And I don't like to be accused of liking dirt on my clothes, just because I am going to be a civil engineer," Tom explained in a milder voice. An ideal bit of green forest, at the edge of a limpid lake, appealed to Dick & Co. as the noon stopping place.
However, whistling was a luxurious and time-wasting method of expressing amazement, and Mr. Phinney could not afford luxuries just then. For the rest of that day he was a busy man. As Bailey Stitt expressed it, he "flew round like a sand flea in a mitten," hiring laborers, engaging masons, and getting his materials ready.
"What were you saying?" she asked. "What's this?" "What were you thinking about?" said he. "I wasn't thinking," she answered, with her slow sweet smile of self-concealment. "I was feeling living the past. I was watching the procession." He nodded understandingly. "That's a kind of time-wasting that can easily be overdone." "Easily," she agreed. "Still, there's the lesson.
But on the whole, girls have too little absolute solitude; there is scarcely a girl in twenty, except the "dig," who is alone at all. One trouble with dormitory school life is that it fosters leisure-wasting and time-wasting "gang" habits. A girl so surrounded never wants to be alone a moment, either indoors or out.
Put sentiment aside, and the only sensible thing to be done now is to prepare him for the hard, uncushioned facts of an active life." "But why must it be so hard for him?" "Why? In the face of the inevitable, that is a time-wasting, useless question. Life is so; even if we find its underlying cause, the discovery will not alter the fact." "Yes, it will." "How?"
"Don't you find it dreadfully time-wasting? Does it leave you leisure for any serious occupations at all? I am afraid it would make me terribly idle!" Mrs. Hawkins laughed, attempting a tone of banter. Letty put up a small hand to hide a sudden yawn, which, however, was visible enough. "Would it?" she said, with an impertinence which hardly tried to conceal itself. "Evelyn, do look at that dog.
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