He has turned from a student into an idler, and, what is worse, I fear into a parasite.

You will forgive me for speaking so plainly ?" Raffles Haw said nothing, but he threw out his hands with a gesture of pain.
"And then there is something to be said about the country folk," said the vicar.

"Your kindness has been, perhaps, a little indiscriminate there.

They don't seem to be as helpful or as self-reliant as they used.
There was old Blaxton, whose cowhouse roof was blown off the other day.
He used to be a man who was full of energy and resource.

Three months ago he would have got a ladder and had that roof on again in two days' work.