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He sprang up and began walking about again, his voice deepening as he progressed with his subject. "Imagine me examining her books at the works, or pottering about on errands of mercy among her glass-blowers! I, who can daily tread the magnificent decks of the 'Terror, and lead my squad on engineering feats that stir every drop of blood in my body to pride over our glorious achievements!
I don't say that he's the fellow seen pottering in the snow." "Call up Clausen." The manager stepped to the telephone. Meanwhile, George had advanced to speak to a man who had beckoned to him from the other side of the room, and with whom in another moment I saw him step out. Thus deserted, I sank into a chair near one of the windows. Never had I felt more uncomfortable.
Occasionally Ephraim addressed whining remonstrances to his father, and begged to be allowed to go out-of-doors, and Caleb would quiet him with one effectual rejoinder: "You know she won't like it if you do, sonny. You know what she said." Caleb, as he shelled the corn with the pottering patience of old age and constitutional slowness, glanced now and then at his daughter in the window.
All the obscene apparatus of London life was there. And as he raised his eyes to the drawing-room and bedroom stories he found no relief. His eyes could discover nothing that was not mean, ugly, frowzy, and unimaginative. He pictured the heavy, gloomy, lethargic life within. The slatternly servants pottering about the bases of the sooty buildings sickened and saddened him.
"I'll fix a part of the house here and you can plant what you want in it"; and after that many mornings found Drusilla pottering happily around the conservatory with a trowel, planting seeds or "slipping" plants as she called it. It gave her something to do, and that was the one thing she needed. She missed the active life, the "doing something." Everything was done for her she had no duties.
And as they stand pottering round the patient, and administering what shall I say? 'pills for the earthquake, as we once heard it comes and brushes them aside and says, 'Physicians of no value! here is the thing that is wanted salvation that comes from God. Brother! it is what you need.
You were bred up here, and know nothing better, poor old Mamsey, and pottering suits you exactly; but it is too much to ask me to sacrifice my wider fields of culture and usefulness. MRS. M. Grandpapa would enjoy nothing so much as reading with you. He said so. C. Oxford half a century old and wearing off ever since. No, I thank you! Besides, it is not only physical science, but art.
He's always pottering about outside the house towards evening, just as if he thought I wanted to go down the garden and help myself to apples and pears. Like his impudence, with his `my garden' and `my fruit, and all the rest of it; and father said that I was to take what I liked, and that he should be proud to leave it to my discretion.
But he wouldn't hear of it. "'Pooh! he would laugh when I would suggest such a thing. 'If ever they come near me I'll tell them I've got "trench pest" and then you'll see them clear out. "He went down in the kitchen and I'd hear him pottering around. I never knew him so gay and happy. "'Tante Rose, I'm going to sing you "La Madelon" and the "Refrain de la Mitraille."
Pottering over mechanical details doubtless has its place, but it tends to foster a hesitancy of action which wastes time more valuable than the resultant gain. The preceding remarks indicate sufficiently the scope of these papers. It is not proposed to give a complete story of the operations, for which the material is not yet available.
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